What We Believe

Inspired by the life and work of our founder and chairman, Honorable Lascelles A. Chin, The LASCO Chin Foundation is dedicated to transforming the lives of Jamaica’s at-risk youth. Our early intervention programmes help to develop the personal and interpersonal relationships, goals and capacities that help our youth fulfill their potential and lead productive lives. Our focus is two-fold: equipping youth between the ages of 18 and 35, with tools to become successful entrepreneurs; and through our schooling support programme, providing students between the ages of 10 and 17 with a range of supporting interventions to assist them over the course of their journeys from elementary to high school, and especially during their high school years.

MISSION

To help at-risk youths break the cycle of poverty and crime and become highly-skilled, entrepreneurial citizens who care for others and the environment.

VISION

To change the way Jamaica views and treats its most vulnerable young people so that they will be empowered to succeed in the future.

BELIEF

We believe that all our youth matter and can become productive, well-intentioned members of our society. The LASCO Chin Foundation works to empower our youth, especially those with the least resources, with access to relevant, high-quality mentorship and capacity building solutions that inspire and guide them to sustained personal and economic growth.