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Welcome to Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Welcome to Breds, The Treasure Beach Foundation. A wholly volunteer-based charitable organization run by members of the community, for the benefit of the community in Treasure Beach, a small, rural enclave on Jamaica’s undeveloped South Coast where fishing and farming are still common ways of life.
100% of donations to Breds goes toward a variety of programs designed to meet the direct needs of the Treasure Beach people, ranging from educational enrichment to the country’s first community-based ambulance service. Breds is the term used in the local vernacular short for “bredren” or friend.
RECENT PROJECTS
Raising Funds for a Community Playground at the Treasure Beach Sports Park
Nestled in a quarter acre, covered by a Lignum Vitae shaded grove near the entrance to Treasure Beach Sports Park is the land that has been dedicated by the Breds board as the future home of a community playground. But not just any community playgrou...Read more »
Establish a Swim Jamaica Program in Treasure Beach
To establish a Swim Jamaica program in Treasure Beach. In a country surrounded by water approximately 75% of the population cannot swim. InTreasure Beach, a fishing village located on the South Coast, this statistic stares us in our face on a daily b...Read more »
Development of The Breds Treasure Beach Sports Park and Community Centre 2009 - 2014
The Breds Sports Park and community centre is located within 15 acres of land purchased by the then member of parliament (S.W St. Elizabeth) Donald Buchanan and leased back to Breds for this purpose.The development of the Sports Park is in 4 Pha...
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