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Taking a Chance to Grow Ideas 

Taking a Chance to Grow Ideas 

By: Keyron Smith  Chief Operating Officer, OEF and CTI  "Keyron, why would you leave your good position and secure job to go work for a nonprofit on a family island? You realize they get their money from donations, right!?"  Many people asked me these...

How Green Spaces Can Make Life Sweeter 

How Green Spaces Can Make Life Sweeter 

By: Selima Hauber ‘Boy Elutra sweet nah!’ was the response from someone who had just learned that I was relocating from Nassau to Eleuthera. I often get similar responses from folks who ask how my family is enjoying living in Eleuthera. Everyone who’s vacationed on...

Dame Dr. Doris Johnson Should Inspire Us All 

Dame Dr. Doris Johnson Should Inspire Us All 

By Kim Williams-Pulfer, Ph.d  The times demand that Caribbean women must learn that they must either, as we say in The Bahamas, “fish or cut bait.”…I plead with our men not to remain asleep through this women’s revolutionary period. All must participate if the...

Opening a Path To a Brighter Future 

Opening a Path To a Brighter Future 

By: Yolanda Pawar (COO of OEF Foundation) Confession time - I sat down to write this article and after several hours of skillfully crafting the wording I looked at the sea of words on my screen and scrapped it, deciding to start from scratch. Why you might ask? ...

To OEF’s Next Ten Years

You made it all possible. Look at what we’ve accomplished together. Get ready for the New Year & next decade as we grow + go further!

CTI Celebrates Its 2022 Carpentry and Housekeeping Management Graduates

CTI Celebrates Its 2022 Carpentry and Housekeeping Management Graduates

The Centre for Training and Innovation has successfully graduated another two cohorts of students from its Spring “Learn-and-Earn” Carpentry Course and Housekeeping Management Course. Hallmarked by pride and a sense of accomplishment, friends and family gathered at...