The Barbados Vagrant & Homeless Society (BVHS) is a charitable organisation in Barbados registered under the Charitable Act Cap.243 with its registered number #794. BVHS provides food, clothing, shelter and beneficial rehabilitative home care, housing and life skills programmes for homeless and vagrant persons across Barbados.
Project Summary
The donation provided BVHS with the necessary funding to reduce the number of homeless/vagrant persons on the streets of Barbados by 40%. To seek to reintegrate at least 80% of the participants in the programme into society with a view of them becoming productive citizens within a year and to ensure that at least 80% of participants in the programme have their own accommodation; are receiving regular medical attention and being allocated to mentors at the successful completion of the programmatic activities.