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LIFE Club Members' Testimonials
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Overview
At Fruitful Trees Foundation, we support students with financial resources, educational materials and recognition for outstanding performance and attributes. Over the years, we have also stages youth conferences, concerts, pop-up amusement parks and sports days.
Our current flagship initiative is a mentoring program called, “LIFE Club”, designed to provide a safe, structured and supportive environment for boys at the primary/elementary school level in the island of Jamaica. We partner with their school administrators, teachers and parents/guardians to develop discipline, confidence and positive influence as we support them in their personal growth, academic improvement and character-building. Through academics, arts and athletics, we seek to inspire and empower our boys to discover and maximise their potential. Attendance, attire, attitude and aptitude are among the ways our boys compete to earn points for their squads (see scoreboard below).
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Our standard itinerary includes academic support classes Mondays to Wednesdays, club meetings on Fridays whilst parent meetings, field trips and socials are scheduled in each term/semester. Each squad comprises ten (10) members, of which one (1) is the First Commander, another, the Second Commander and the others assigned a rank, role and responsibility. In some instances, we assign a senior student as Squad Advisor to each squad. A typical meeting features deportment assessment, temperature check (reports on their behaviour throughout the week), an icebreaker, discussion of housekeeping matters, main activity (e.g. video presentation and Q&A, general quiz, indoor games, etc.) and light refreshment.
We completed our 3-year pilot project with our pioneer cohort of thirty-one (31) boys in August 2026 and enrolled our second cohort of Grade 4 boys; our numbers will be capped at 30 by the end of November 2026. As we grow and more resources become available, we will steadily add the lower school age group, Grades 1-3, as well as launch the program in other schools. The plan is to mentor each cohort of 30 boys for 3-6 years to help them prepare academically and socially for high school.