OUR COMMITTEES

The Student Awards Committee for the past 76 years has recognized the BEST Graduates of every level of education on the Island at the end of each school year. Our goal is to stimulate the BEST Graduates to keep studying, to seek a professional career and to become community leaders of the future. This is one of our longest existing committees and we are proud, as we award each Student, during our presentation dinner ceremony in the month of July. Our Governor and his spouse are our special invited guests for the event. Our graduates receive a monetary amount, Gift Certificates, and an award depicting our local owl ‘Shoco,’ the symbol of wisdom. The Chairman and committee members collaborate closely with the schools to get the results of the Best Graduates after which we invite the best graduates and their parents to a special evening. 

The" Medio Ambiente Goes to School".project 

has the goal to bring awareness to our school children that they have to keep their school clean of garbage, by using less packaging material for the food and drink they bring to school.,

Every year we distribute to the first graders a package containing a thermos for their drink, a plastic container for their sandwich, and a small towel.  We also give them a presentation about the inportance of keeping Aruba clean.

Another part of this project is to teach the children how to plant vegetable plants they can later use to prepare a meal at home.

 our Signature Project ‘DRESS A CHILD.’ This annual project takes place during the first week of December, as we dress between two hundred and two hundred and seventy-five underprivileged children for the holidays. The funding needed is Afls. 25,000,00 as we spend about Afls.150,00 per child. Our chairman and committee members work closely with the social department of the island and primary schools for the families in need 

 The Health Committee organizes events and lectures to bring awareness about health topics, like the importance of doing mammograms, a yearly Pap test and the Self-breast examination with the project “Siña pa Bo Biba” .

For this project we teamed up with other organizations likeHAVA, MJF & BOB, to teach the women to physically examine their own breasts frequently . We also distributed shower hangers with information about the self-breast examination as a reminder .

The AIDS Awareness Committee brings information to the community about HIV/AIDS by giving lectures , and organizing World AIDS Day (WAD) on December 1st each year, as well as The International Candlelight Memorial each 3rd Sunday in May.