ANDREA KERR-FINAKIN  – Ms. Kerr as she is affectionately called, is the operator of Kerr’s Décor N More in Rose Heights, Montego Bay and specializes in the making of sheet sets, curtains, bedspreads, cushions and just about and items to beautify the home. It functions with a goal of expanding to create employment for youth in and around the community. 

Ms Kerr offers free adult literacy classes at the community center in Rose Heights. She also gives back to her community through her church activities and the local school projects such as the provision of skips, summer camp programmes and feeding programmes for the children of the community. She loves working with young people, who she refers to as an “endangered species” because of the many things designed to lead them astray.  

An avid Environmentalist, Ms Kerr also plays a crucial role in the recycling program for the Rose Heights community. The program, in collaboration with Recycling Partners of Jamaica actively encourages the recycling of plastic materials and provides special recycling skips around the community, including Ms Kerr’s residence. This also helps to educate persons in the use of recycling and how useful things can be made from what seems to be trash. 

ANESHA MILLER – Farmerdex Wholesale & Retail store is registered as a Sole Trader and operated by Anesha Miller across the three volatile communities of the St. Andrew West Rural constituency. Anesha’s community outreach program over the year has contributed to touching the lives of people in the Gordon Town and Papine area by providing proper and safe accommodations for students who are affected whenever the Hope River, which runs through the community is in spate due to heavy rains.  

Anesha also regularly executes various treats, fun days and back to school packages for the youth in her community, which is usually funded from her own pocket. Each year members of the community, come together to use the opportunity to volunteer to aid in food preparation and execution of the event.