Friendship, Jamaica · Cincinnati, Ohio

Impact

Scholarships & student work

Two awards a year, and the craft the students make from almost nothing.

The MIC Scholarship Award

“Annually the Foundation gives an education Scholarship Award to two deserving students. We congratulate and honor the recipients.”

Twenty students are eligible for support. At the families’ request, we don’t publish recipients’ names.

3
award years so far
20
students each year
20
students eligible

Award years

The award has been presented in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

2014

The first MIC Award presented at Mount Waddy Primary School.

2015

The second year of the award.

2017

Presentation at the school.

2017

The second recipient of that year.

Photographs are published; names are not.

Arts & Crafts

Made at Mount Waddy Primary School, almost entirely from recycled and found materials — tissue paper, scrap cloth, newspaper, coconut shell, tree root and matchsticks.

Cloth dolls
Collage of craft pieces
Floor mat made from scrap cloth
Floor mat made from shredded scrap cloth
Handbags made from recycled newspaper and paper bags
Jamaica’s national bird, the Doctor Bird, made from tissue
Jamaica’s national coat of arms made from tissue
Jamaica’s national flag made from tissue
Map of Jamaica made from wood, sand and cord
Model washing machine made from cardboard
Newspaper flowers in a plastic bottle and wood vase
Pencil holder made from ice-cream sticks
Picture made from seeds and pencil shavings
Stuffed animals and wooden vases
Trinket box made from matchsticks and wooden clothes pins
Turtle made from coconut shell
Walking sticks made from tree root