Welcome to the official website of the Bajan Dream Project: Barbados' only skills, housing and poverty relief charity.

Think Barbados and you may think unspoilt beaches, sprawling condominiums and a quintessential holiday paradise. While this is to some extent true, it belies the reality of the Barbados in which many live and work everyday. Social exclusion, poverty, unemployment and inadequate shelter affect at least 35,000 Barbadians living on less than $8 a day — and these official figures are just an understatement from 1997. As a small island developing state caught up in 2008's lethargic economy, the true extent of poverty in Barbados today is much larger, and the prospect of its exponential growth is already being observed as generational poverty is passed down from parents, to children, to grandchildren.

The Bajan Dream Project is a social initiative aimed at ending this process. As the first and only organization of its kind in Barbados, the Project delivers a unique intervention to Barbados' poor by combining skills training, micro-financing and affordable housing provision in a sustainable 'workfare' model. Our broad aims are to give the poor the tools needed to earn their own income and grow their personal wealth, while supplementing their economic independence through the provision of an affordable home. This website gives more information on our cause and, more importantly, how you can help.