The Blue Mountain Project’s activities in Hagley Gap have evolved over the years but have always been based on the needs that we discovered in the community through our ongoing presence and through our interactions with community members. In November 2009, the Community Advisory Board was started to serve as a formal liaison between the community and the Board of Directors of the Blue Mountain Project. One of its first acts was to help the Blue Mountain Project establish our priority program areas for the next few years (please click on an item in the following list for information about each program):

1. Clean Water
2. Health
3. Literacy
4. Economic Development

Additionally, the Blue Mountain Project serves as the area Disaster Relief Organization. Our team of staff and volunteers are trained to respond in the event of a crisis such as a hurricane or earthquake.

Although we a have full-time Program Manager on site, most of our work is accomplished through our short and long term volunteers with the aid of generous donations and gifts-in-kind. Our long-term volunteers, our Ambassadors, are experts who manage a program area and implement projects with the assistance of our long-term Jamaican volunteers, l.i.g.h.t.s, and our short term volunteers, Service Learning Program Volunteers. Some of our repeat Service Learning volunteer groups take on long term projects recognizing that fulfilling our mission of educating and empowering takes time to accomplish.