The Bel Air Home was opened in January 1999 and is run by a not for profit company that is incorporated in Grenada. A board of directors who all serve in a voluntary capacity runs the company. The Friends of Bel Air (Grenada) is registered with the Charity Commission in the UK.
The Home was purpose built to accommodate up to 20 babies and toddlers in the nursery and 20 adolescents girls in individual cubicles on the upper floor. The day to day running of the home is carried out by the Home Manager and twenty other staff.
The children are from background of neglect, physical or sexual abuse, or abandonment. Their care is centred on personal development and personal tutoring based on each child's capabilities. There is a pre school for the older children from the nursery which helps with early childhood development. Corporal punishment is not permitted.
Grenada is close to most peoples' dreams of an idyllic tropical island and so it is but as in any other country in the world there are less fortunate individuals who are not able to share in that idyll - in the case of the residents of Bel Air, children who have not had any control of their own destiny.
The island also suffered total devastation on September 7 2004, when Hurricane Ivan passed directly over the island.
The EDP founders have had a long friendship with the generous donors behind this orphanage in St. George, the capital of Grenada.
Please visit the website at: www.spiceisle.com/belairhome