Our Projects
CHEED Projects are grouped into various categories as can be seen below. By selecting a category you will be able to sort each project based on its current status and select which project you wish to donate to.
Barbuda Nayga Say Podcast
barbudanGO has been recording the voices of the elderly in the community with the aim of making a podcast. The podcast will cover key areas of Barbudan culture such as food, nature, and our colonial history, with at least ten episodes in total.
Amount Needed: $25,000 USD
Funded: $0
Kite Flying Competition
Kite flying is a tradition in both Antigua and Barbuda where young people and adults design their own kites and fly them during the Easter holidays.
Amount Needed: $10,000 USD
Funded: $0
Highland House Conservation to Restoration Project – Phase 1
Understanding that heritage sites and buildings worldwide have been demolished, the aim of this conservation to restoration effort is to ensure Highland House Estate remains a protected area that is effectively managed via the efforts of a continual partnership between barbudanGO, Barbuda Local Council, commercial entities and other academic research and funding agencies.
Amount Needed: $67,818.04 USD
Funded: $0
Repurposing Codrington Historical Wells
barbudanGO is seeking to create two native gardens inside Barbuda’s historical wells: one would serve as a mangrove nursery and the other would serve as a habitat for the endemic Barbuda Warbler and other small birds. Both gardens will be located in historical sites that date back to the Codrington era in the 1600s and 1700s.
Amount Needed: $50,000 USD
Funded: $0
barbudanGO Education Grant (GO-ED grant)
Residents of Barbuda were invited to apply for a small grant program provided by barbudanGO. barbudanGO supported educational projects geared to develop knowledge, talents, and skills within the Barbudan community.
Amount Needed: $2,612 USD
Target met: $2,612 USD
barbudanGO Education Grant (GO-ED)
barbudanGO launched a grant cycle in 2021 and one grantee was awarded $2612usd for a theatre group that hosted a show in summer. The success of this event and the grant (barbudanGO received many applications) means barbudanGO is seeking your help to launch three more education programs within the community.
Amount Needed: $30,000 USD
Funded: $0
Youth Apprenticeship Program
barbudanGO would like to implement a continuous youth apprentice program that attaches young people to places of work or individuals who can provide positive mentorship and be role models to encourage young people in Barbuda into the world of work.
Amount Needed: $30,000 USD
Funded: $14,880.00 USD
Combating Climate Change Through Nature Based Education
barbudanGO would like to lobby the government of Antigua and Barbuda to have a day or include climate change education in the curriculum for schools.
Amount Needed: $50,000 USD
Funded: $0
Fencing Project
To assist 100 Barbudan homeowners with adequate fencing materials to (1) improve property protection from trespassers and animals, (2) to improve and promote backyard gardening, and (3) to reestablish the parameters of one’s property to meet local building codes.
Amount Needed: $400,000 USD
Funded: $0
Water Harvesting
The objective of the project is to assist (16) sixteen Barbudan homeowners to improve their ability to provide water for their daily consumption by restoring their cisterns that were damaged in Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Amount Needed: $96,000 USD
Funded: $2000 USD
Barbuda Nayga Say Podcast
Summary: Since March 2021 barbudanGO has been recording voices of elderly in the community with the aim of making a podcast. Kiernan Dunlop, a journalist on scholarship with Fullbright, has been instrumental in the recording and editing of the podcast, which will cover key areas of Barbudan culture such as food, nature and our colonial history, with at least ten episodes in total. The aim is to keep a time capsule for future generations as Barbuda changes rapidly through development and technology. Watch this space in 2022 as we launch the podcast. Listen to out first episode below.
Challenge: How do we protect the oral history of our elders?
Solution: Safeguarding the traditions and practices of an indigenous people through recordings. Recording the voices of elders will protect the oral histories and keep them for generations to come. Long-term impact: These recordings are disaster-proof. They are oral histories that can be passed down from generation to generation – Protecting our culture and keeping it alive.
Long-Term Impact: These recordings are disaster proof. They are oral histories that can be passed
down from generation to generation – Protecting our culture and keeping it alive.
Barbuda Nayga Say Podcast
Kite Flying Competition
Summary: This project is yet to be lifted by barbudanGO but traditionally in Antigua & Barbuda during Easter young people fly kites. barudanGO envisions creating a competition that can be entered by young people between the ages of 4 and 16 years old. Winners would recieve a prize. We would love to continue the tradition as a fun, engaging activity for young people to get involved in during the easter holidays.
Challenge: Lack of extra curricular activities to partake in on Barbuda since hurricane Irma in 2017.
Solution: this would strengthen the community by giving young people between the ages of 4 to 16 a safe space and engaging activity to partake in that would encourage wellness and socialisation. It additionally continues a fun tradition.
Long-Term Impact: Happier and healthier young people. Kite flying encourages hand-eye coordination, kinesthetic awareness, and gross motor skills.
Highland House Conservation to Restoration Project – Phase 1
Summary: Much of Highland House Estate located at Willy Bob has suffered from time degradation, no restoration and very little preservation. barbudanGO understands the importance of protecting heritage and cultural resources and thereby aims to establish a continuous conservation plan that would function to protect Highland House site and support continual research. Effective Management of this project requires the following: Policy and Research Unit, Conservation Unit, Architecture and Construction Unit
Challenge: Preservation and conservation of the site
Solution: This would strengthen the community by giving young people between the ages of 4 to 16 a safe space and engaging activity to partake in that would encourage wellness and socialisation. It additionally continues a fun tradition.
Long-Term Impact: A functioning historical site that is preserved effectively and operates self sufficiently.
Image obtained from Barbuda Research Complex.
Image obtained from Barbuda Research Complex.
Repurposing Codrington Historical Wells
Summary: The protected sites have been carefully selected. Low Pond, located on the fringes of the Codrington lagoon hosts a brackish pond that was once surrounded by lush mangroves and a resting and feeding site for many birds on the northern side of the village. The other compound is one of the Codrington Wells and catching pens. Both sites are no longer used by the community, have long lost their cultural significance, have become illegal dumpsites and would serve the community better if these spaces are repurposed to create thriving ecosystems that support wildlife and biodiversity.
Challenge: Restoring the wells on Barbuda that are natural habitats and drinking grounds to Barbuda’s wildlife that have
fallen into disrepair and have become illegal dumpsites.
Solution: This conservation project focuses on creating a mangrove nursery and a small bird habitat in the urban/rural landscape. The project addresses restoring ecosystems that were once nurturing, productive and sustainable spaces to restore habitat and biodiversity loss.
Long-Term Impact: This project has multiple long term ebenfits for the community such as disaster resiliecny through mangrove planting, habitat restoration for wild life and restoring a traditional historical site that oresevres culture and creates a clean safe space for young and old to utilise.
barbudanGO Education Grant (GO-ED grant)
Summary: barbudanGO was able to distribute a grant of $2611 usd after recveiving numerous applications for an educationl porgram on barbuda. Please assist us to honour some of the other progams who applied for the grant which include cricket practice for adult and youth, a leadership program, a writing program and more. We intend to give $10,000 usd grants per program totalling $30,000 usd and supporting three programs.
Challenge: Since hurricane irma community activities have declined. Disenfranchised youth and adults that are excluded from traditional education routes are not supported.
Solution: Educational Programs are needed to provide for youth and adults personal development outside of traditional educational routes and to provide better opportunities and options.
Long-Term Impact: educational programs for youth and adults that are alternative assist in positive personal development of an individual socially psycologically and intellecully.
barbudanGO Education Grant (GO-ED grant)
Summary: barbudanGO launched its first small education grant called the GO-Ed Grant in 2020. This fund enabled people in the community to apply for XCD$7000 ($2612 usd) to implement their own projects from their existing knowledge, skill and talent and target any audience. The winning proposal was submitted by Darlene Beazer and Paula Henry. Their project was a six month
theater club for ages six to thirteen years old with a final live performance for people in the community. It was a forum for young children to learn about their local culture and by extension engage in the art of public speaking, developing literacy, problem solving and communication skills.
Challenge: The community has not had an established drama group since the early 1980’s, therefore young people under the age of 16 have not had the opportunity to participate in or witness theatrical production of, and by Barbudans.
Solution: To expose young people to new vocabulary and a variety of ways to communicate thoughts ideas and emotions through theatre.
Long-Term Impact: Youth that are given different opportunities and outlets to express themselves are more engaged. It is personal development in confidence and communication skills.
Youth Apprenticeship Program
Summary: Since 2020 barbudanGO has been conducting an internship in collaboration with the Barbuda council and funded by the waitt institute to date 10 interns have been mentored under this scheme. One has been employed by the fisheries department and all others are currently in jobs. We think the internship is essential for the personal development of youth. We want to continue this project but broaden its reach to other areas in the public and private sector where young people can gain skills and knowledge from working on the job. Funding would go towards
Challenge: Youth unemployment in Antigua and Barbuda.
Solution: This project provides the necessary bridge between workforce and young, inexperienced future employees giving young people the skills to enter the workforce.
Long-Term Impact: Skills and training to assist young people to enter the workforce as well trained young men and women.
Combating Climate Change Through Nature Based Education
Summary: In 2019 barbudnGO joined the global climate strike and formulated a one day curriculum for schools across the nation. A total of 15 schools took part in Antigua and Barbuda. The curriculum focused on messages such as 1.5 to stay alive and how to reduce carbon footprint. barbudanGO beleoves this should become a part of the curriculum or to reserve a day to educate young people about climate achnage and the role they can play in reducing it.
Challenge: Unaware and disinterested young people about climate change. The nation experiences the threat of hurricanes on a yearly basis
Solution: Education campaigns to encourage participation im the protection of the environment.
Long-Term Impact: Encouraging awareness on the issue of climate change and i the longterm developing civil scientists who understand the importance of protecting nature for the preservation of earth.
Fencing Project
Summary: The fencing project aims to to achieve resiliency and structural enhancement within the community. Because 95% of the fencing of homeowners were destroyed after the passage of hurricane Irma, restoring livelihoods and normalcy is a priority. Lack of resources and funding has reduced the efforts of homeowners to further advance in crop production. As a form of disaster resiliency, this project will allow the community to bounce back on its feet and to restore hope and pride in one’s compound.
Challenge: Lack of funding to secure properties and to establish back yard farming
Solution: Provide the fencing material and labour to assist homeowners in their recovery.
Long-Term Impact: Food security and safer spaces for homeowners.
Water Harvesting
Summary: barbudanGO has been implementing a water harvesting project since 2019. To date we have serviced 84 homes with 600 gallon water tanks. Our initial goal was to service 100 homes with these tanks but during the project we realised that homeowners had damaged cisterns from the hurricane. We decided that a more long term and sustainable resolution to meet our 100 home goal would be to service the remaining 16 homes with the cistern repair.
Challenge: Since hurricane Irma blew away and destroyed many water catchments homeowners have not had the income to be able to focus on this tradition.
Solution: Assist homeowners by bearing the cost of the rebuild of their cisterns to enable them to continue the tradition of rain water harvesting.
Long-Term Impact: repairing cisterns provides water security and a more sustainable method of water catchment
