Help Annotto Bay in Jamaica 2025

Frassati Missions has had the privilege of serving the community of Annotto Bay since 2019. Because of the generous outpouring of so many, we have been able to make steady improvements through our partnership with St. Theresa's Church. St. Theresa's manages a weekly food distribution to the poor and shut in, operates several mission schools and chapels in the Blue Mountains, and provides a safe place where families can gather and be nourishes spiritually through various retreats and outreach programs.

Over 6 missions, with the help of 50+ missionaries and countless donors...we have been able to remodel a school playground, termite proof 2 schools, repaint a school building, install a new garden, re-tile the church floor, provide new windows screens, repair St. Theresa's leaky roof, purchase and refurbish a new shipping container for St. Theresa's food handout, and demolish a deteriorating building.

Thanks to your help, we have provided over 12 youth and community retreats serving over 400 people...and have begun regular annual visits to the local Annotto Bay High School in support of the GEMS (Girl's Empowerment Movement), a group started by the local principal to support at risk teenage girls.

This year and with your help, we hope to finish re-building the Pier Giorgio Mission House (demolition pictured above), which will serve as a missionary guest house part-time and multi-purpose space for future parish outreach needs.

As part of the Church's Jubilee Year, our theme this year will be "Missionaries of Hope" as we share the good news of love and mercy. Through this lens, we will also provide a large several retreats, visit the sick and homebound, and work with the local high school.

Thank you for your support of Annotto Bay and for encouraging the lay faithful to be missionary disciples through their care of the poor, sick, and marginalized through these works of mercy and sharing the Good News.

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PROJECTS

Pier Giorgio Frassati Mission House | $40,000

$25,000 construction materials and labor

$7,000 roofing, doors, and windows

$6,000 electrical and plumbing

$2,000 basic furnishings (fans, bunk beds, toilets, sinks, etc)

*Photos below is our progress as of August 2024

Community Retreats and Outreach | $5,000

A large community retreat, 2 youth retreats, visits to the sick and homebound, outreach to GEMs of Annotto Bay High School. This includes all supplies and materials, music, self-care kits, meals for 100+ people during the community retreat, and more.