Reaching further than the retreat.
Coming home to yourself opens the door to coming home for others.
Every Women Up retreat is built to do two kinds of work. The first you can feel: the women in the circle, the practice, the conversations, the time away. The second is quieter and lives past the retreat: a portion of every fee goes to a women-and-children-focused cause in or near the host community.
For our first retreat in Montego Bay, that partner is the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: specifically the work they are doing right now to repair a preschool roof damaged by Hurricane Melissa. Children sit under that roof every weekday. Mothers count on it to keep going to work, to keep going to school themselves, to keep building lives that look different than the ones they were handed. Fixing a roof is not glamorous. It is exactly the kind of practical, dignity-first work this partnership is for.
The roof is the immediate need. Other current needs at the Foundation include a fence repair, desks and basic supplies for the children, a new AC unit, and a planned vocational training lab so mothers don’t have to travel to Kingston to learn a trade. Every dollar finds a use.
Support the work directly.
When you book a Journey to Self retreat, a portion of your fee already flows to the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation: the preschool roof, the children sitting beneath it, the mothers counting on the routine. If you’re not in a season to travel but want to amplify that work, you can give directly.
The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation has done dignity-first work since 1981: practical, on-the-ground support for teen mothers, young women, and the children in their care. They show up the way Women Up wants to show up: no theater, no pity, just the work.
Every dollar you give meets a need the retreat fees alone can’t cover. Thank you for standing in the gap.
Donations process securely through PayPal. Venmo accepted. 100% of contributions directly support the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation.
Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation: preschool roof repair, Montego Bay.
A portion of every Journey to Self fee directly supports the Foundation's Hurricane Melissa recovery work: restoring the preschool building that serves the children of teen mothers and young women rebuilding their lives. No middle layer. No marketing campaign attached. Just the work.
Women supporting women. Real action over performance.
Looking Forward
As Women Up grows, each retreat will support a women-and-children-focused partner in or near its host destination. The retreat changes. The pattern does not. You come home to yourself. The work you helped fund opens a doorway for another woman, another family, another child.
This is what we mean when we say surviving and thriving belong in the same home. The woman on the mat in Jamaica and the mother dropping her child off at that preschool are not in different stories. They are in the same one.