Home

HOW CAN
YOU HELP?

Make
a Donation

Become
a Volunteer

Refer to Family and Friends

[vcex_image align=”center” width=”100{c9c07c887ecf760429b1b9bc0556caf9cbbf6bc0b09412c0b3b7ccc8a81d85f0}” img_size=”full” overlay_style=”” image_id=”82″ el_class=”stretch-image”]

Abacus for Communities (AfC)

Abacus for Communities (AfC) is a “Non Governmental Organization” working with communities at grassroots level, in partnership with national, regional and international governments, organizations and individuals, to promote the development of safe, prosperous, stable, and self-developing communities. AfC was  formed to address the changing development needs in the Caribbean resulting from the magnitude and impact of disasters that have struck and are expected to impact the region and the preparedness and responses countries will require. It does this with a team comprising a small staff, professional consultants, cooperating partners and a growing number of volunteers, through projects involving early warning, emergency communications, environment, health, education, infrastructure, culture, security, rural development, disaster risk reduction and the promotion of private-sector enterprise. AfC has a roster of consultants with Caribbean and international experience in humanitarian and development disciplines.

[vcex_feature_box text_align=”center” heading=”Help Support Our Vision” heading_font_family=”Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace” img_size=”full” image=”645″ content_background=”#023f4e” heading_color=”#ffffff” content_color=”#ffffff” background=”#023f4e” heading_size=”22″ content_padding=”top:10|right:10|left:20″ heading_margin=”right:5|left:20″ content_font_size=”14″ content_font_weight=”normal”]

Thank you for your supportyour confidence, and your belief in our vision.

[vcex_divider_dots color=”#ffffff” margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″]

[vcex_button url=”https://www.abacusjamaica.org/make-a-donation” title=”Visit Site” style=”flat” align=”center” color=”white” size=”medium” target=”self” rel=”none”]Make A Donation[/vcex_button]

[/vcex_feature_box]

[vcex_feature_box text_align=”center” heading=”Volunteer” image=”646″ content_background=”#023f4e” heading_color=”#ffffff” background=”#023f4e” content_color=”#ffffff” heading_size=”24″ heading_margin=”right:5|bottom:50|left:20″ content_font_size=”14″ content_padding=”top:10|right:20|left:20″]

Volunteer with your ideas, your skills, your time and efforts in support of our development model from any location globally.

[vcex_divider_dots color=”#ffffff” margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”10″]

[vcex_button url=”https://www.abacusjamaica.org/contact” title=”Visit Site” style=”flat” align=”center” color=”white” size=”medium” target=”self” rel=”none”]Volunteer[/vcex_button]

[/vcex_feature_box]

[vcex_icon_box style=”two” heading=”Who We Are” icon_type=”linecons” icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-world” icon_color=”#ffffff” icon_background=”#b1ac9d” icon_size=”48px” icon_border_radius=”50{c9c07c887ecf760429b1b9bc0556caf9cbbf6bc0b09412c0b3b7ccc8a81d85f0}” icon_width=”100px” icon_height=”100px” css=”.vc_custom_1542555365094{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #eeeeee !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #eeeeee !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #eeeeee !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #eeeeee !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}” heading_color=”#023f4e”]A growing global network of concerned citizens and organizations, who have a committment to grass roots, bottom-up community development as the way forward for Developing Countries and who engage in these activities through collaborative partnerships with governments, industry and other civil society organizations, while advocating for this aproach to be adopted globally.[/vcex_icon_box]
[vcex_icon_box style=”two” heading=”What We Do” icon_type=”linecons” icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-world” icon_color=”#ffffff” icon_background=”#b1ac9d” icon_size=”48px” icon_border_radius=”50{c9c07c887ecf760429b1b9bc0556caf9cbbf6bc0b09412c0b3b7ccc8a81d85f0}” icon_width=”100px” icon_height=”100px” css=”.vc_custom_1542555380717{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #eeeeee !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #eeeeee !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #eeeeee !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #eeeeee !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}” heading_color=”#023f4e”]

  • Project Development, Management and Implementation
  • Training and Capacity Building
  • Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Disaster / Humanitarian Response and Early Recovery
  • Roster Consultancy Services for a wide range of target sectors
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Advocacy

[/vcex_icon_box]

[vcex_icon_box style=”two” heading=”Our Vision” icon_type=”linecons” icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-world” icon_color=”#ffffff” icon_background=”#b1ac9d” icon_size=”48px” icon_border_radius=”50{c9c07c887ecf760429b1b9bc0556caf9cbbf6bc0b09412c0b3b7ccc8a81d85f0}” icon_width=”100px” icon_height=”100px” css=”.vc_custom_1542555394967{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #eeeeee !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #eeeeee !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #eeeeee !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #eeeeee !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}” heading_color=”#023f4e”]A structured and transparent, globally adopted bottom-up approach to development, based around communities;

With safe, prosperous, stable, self-developing communities, resilient to all existing and emerging global challenges;

Where particularly the youth find opportunity and hope to strive for long and happy lives at sustainable standards of living;[/vcex_icon_box]

[vcex_icon_box style=”two” heading=”Our Philosophy” icon_type=”linecons” icon_linecons=”vc_li vc_li-world” icon_color=”#ffffff” icon_background=”#b1ac9d” icon_size=”48px” icon_border_radius=”50{c9c07c887ecf760429b1b9bc0556caf9cbbf6bc0b09412c0b3b7ccc8a81d85f0}” icon_width=”100px” icon_height=”100px” css=”.vc_custom_1542555417534{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;border-left-color: #eeeeee !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #eeeeee !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #eeeeee !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #eeeeee !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}” heading_color=”#023f4e”]“The people to business are a market, to politics, they are voters, to AfC they are family

Mainly through volunteerism, we help them to achieve independence, by drawing from their own motivations and efforts

So let us build the people and they will build their institutions “[/vcex_icon_box]

[vcex_heading text=”Building Communities, Household by Household” text_align=”center” color=”#ffffff” css=”.vc_custom_1541811093829{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}” font_size=”26″][vcex_divider color=”#83c132″ width=”80px” height=”3px”][vcex_spacing][vcex_button url=”https://www.abacusjamaica.org/index.php/about/” target=”blank” title=”Learn More” align=”center” border_radius=”0px” font_padding=”10px 30px”]LEARN MORE[/vcex_button]

AfC was created with a “raison d’etre” to build a model of enablement and upliftment of people (teaching to fish – men, women, youth and poor) instead of patronising them by handouts (giving them fish)…. AfC brings a strong and unique core belief and commitment that communities must in the main, find and adopt self-development mechanisms and while working with government and other institutions, must not wait on them.

[vcex_heading text=”UPCOMING EVENTS” font_weight=”bold” css=”.vc_custom_1541872113310{padding-top: 25px !important;}”]

[eventon_slider slider_type=’carousel’ lan=’L1′ orderby=’ASC’ date_out=’1′ date_in=’1′ id=’abacus_events’]

[vcex_spacing][vcex_spacing][vcex_heading text=”Meet Our Dedicated Team” text_align=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1544894606346{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}” color=”#023f4e”][vcex_divider color=”#83c132″ width=”80px” height=”3px”]
[vcex_staff_grid columns=”4″ equal_heights_grid=”true” posts_per_page=”4″ orderby=”title” img_size=”full” content_heading_size=”16″]
[vcex_heading text=”Latest Abacus News” font_size=”32″]
[vcex_recent_news grid_columns=”4″ count=”4″]
[vcex_image_carousel img_size=”full” image_ids=”640,639,638″]