Belize

Casey Scholarship Fund
Gallon Jug, Belize
Michael Casey was the principal of the Gallon Jug Community School(now called the Casey Community School) in Belize, and he established the Gallon Jug Community School Scholarship Fund –– now called the Casey Scholarship Fund –– in 2007 to secure funding in order to provide eighth grade students the opportunity to attend secondary level schooling. The program offers each student financial assistance based on tuition cost, family mean income, the student’s grade point average and the number of children from one family attending the school. The fund gives families an opportunity to send their child to high school, an option that in the past was unavailable, as the cost was too large.

Presently, there are twenty students attending high school with assistance from the program. Eligible students receive, on average, 2000.00 BZE (Belize dollars) or 1000.00 US (U. S. Dollars) annually. That amount covers tuition cost, as well as school supplies and money for the family who houses the student when the student leaves their home in Gallon Jug to attend high school in one of the other Belizean towns. If criteria for receiving funding is maintained (such as grade point average), the funding is renewed for the following year.

Casey Scholarship Fund Committee-Gallon Jug, Belize

Orange Walk Scholarship Fund
Orange Walk, Belize
The Orange Walk Scholarship Fund is in the process of being completed and will soon offer high school funding to students in outlying rural communities of the Orange Walk District, Belize- giving 8th grade students(standard/term 6) the opportunity to attend high school.

Scholarship Students- Damaris, Alice and Aniver with Mr. Chris
Muffles High School-Orange Walk District, Belize

Casey Community School Computer Upgrade Project
Gallon Jug, Belize
World’s Window will be upgrading the computers at the Casey Community School in Gallon Jug, Belize. We will be allocating $2,500.00 dollars towards this upgrade project. The upgrade will include ten newly refurbished Dell laptop computers, one new projector, a new digital camera, a new wireless modem, and one new web cam. The computers will be shipped to Belize in the coming weeks and should be in use by late November 2011. We are very excited about this project, as this will give the teachers and students-at the small remote community school- a high quality, efficient system upgrade to the currently outdated system. This project will give the teachers greater tools for teaching, thereby giving the students a higher quality education. The students will now have monitored access to high quality efficient computers, connecting them to the world outside of their own, providing them with learning tools and access to the wealth of positive information available on the web.

Casey Community School- New Laptops Delivered-Nov 2011