HISTORY

In 2004, Kathy Ozzard Chism created the Bahamian Children's Trust Fund for LCRs on Grand Bahama Island where she once lived, an island ravaged in 2004 by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.

Kathy had discovered that the Bahamian government was not doing much to help their own people on that island and the only assistance the victims would receive would be largely through the kindness of others. 

Although living in California, she was able to solicit contributions from all over the U.S. and the Bahamas for her grass roots relief effort.

Kathy worked with her close friend Virge Cafferata on the island of Grand Bahama, who enlisted additional volunteers to purchase and distribute food, diapers, clothing, bedding, building materials, etc., to three settlements on that island - the hardest hit in the entire country from those two hurricanes. 

The goods were distributed to all the people and animals that were in greatest need.  (Photo of Virge distributing goods.)

Virge and her volunteers worked nonstop for months, all giving of their own time and money, and without them none of this work would have been possible.  (Virge, Father Reggie, Cynthia, and Mary Ann)

Each purchase receipt was copied and recorded, and every penny donated was used for the people and animals of the island. 

It was a labor of love, it worked seamlessly, and it paved the way for the creation and realization of DREAM ONE WORLD.

Please click on the "Projects" page at left to see examples of where we have been since becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2005, and where we are helping in the world right now.

Please join us!  Thank you.