Purpose

The St. Kitts Foundation (SKF) was established to support and fund local projects in and around the island of St. Kitts. Fundable projects must be "organized and operated for charitable purposes" (i.e. not a for-profit venture). Project staff are allowed to earn a fair salary for their work on the project, but investors are not allowed to make a profit from the project. The principal benefactor of SKF is Auberge Firesky and the resort community on the Southeast Peninsula of St. Kitts, West Indies.

Grants Issued to Date

• Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College to provide swimming lessons, snorkeling gear and educational field and library materials for an ongoing field studies project involving coral reef monitoring and fish identification and counting.

• St. Kitts Reef Ecology Watchgroup to support a beach cleanup at Turtle Beach, and to provide educational materials for fish identification training in the community.

• Department of Physical Planning and the Environment to support National Beach Cleanup Day on Sept. 28, 2007, in which over 400 participants from local secondary schools, teachers, and the community removed garbage from seven beaches around the island of St. Kitts.

• St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network (SKSTMN) fto support materials for Turtle Conservation summer camp serving 100 local students.

• EarthEcho International to support the radio production component of three EarthEcho Expeditions on St. Kitts to be distributed as part of an EarthEcho series by "Living on Earth" through Public Radio International.

• Reef Relief to support their participation in Peninsula Marine Ecosystem Survey Week delivered education, training and materials (for full report, see Reports)

• Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) to support their participation in the Peninsula Marine Ecosystem Survey Week where they delivered education, training and materials (for full report, see Reports)

• Reunion Organizing Committee for Basseterre High School (ROC-90) to assist in providing books, uniforms, equipment, and other needs of students in the mentor programme.