Working in The Province of West Indies

Including Belize, Jamaica & The Cayman Islands, NE Caribbean & Aruba, Windward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, The Bahamas, and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

The province of the West Indies came in being in 1992. It comprises of seven dioceses namely Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Island. Membership is over 10,000 and mixed in ages.

The main programmes that the members are involved in throughout this region are literacy, skills training, communication skills, leadership, parenting, Christian education, marriage preparation and environmental and health awareness, particularly with HIV/AIDS. The region now has two trained parenting facilitators who have been able to train other members and hold workshops and programme for their individual communities. Mothers' Union has taken a lead in working with women in prison and helping them on their release to readjust to family life in their communities. They are active in supporting those who have experienced domestic violence, and working with children with special needs.

The groups of islands that make up the province of the West Indies lie in the earthquake and hurricane belt. Hurricane Ivan in 2004 was the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean in over a decade. Relief Fund grants were sent to the Diocese of the Windward Islands and the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to enable them to purchase emergency supplies such as food and blankets for those worst affected by the Hurricane.