News & Updates

Emancipate Educate Donate – is the theme of the UWI‘s Global Giving Week, which launched on April 8, 2016 at the UWI Regional Headquarters and on April 29, 2016 at the St. Augustine Campus. It aims to bring staff, alumni, friends, donor agencies, the private and the public sectors together to create a culture of sustained philanthropy across the region and the wider world.

The week will run annually from Aug 1- 7, however gifts to Faculties, Halls of Residence, Sports, Research, UWI Foundations and UWI Endowment Funds are welcomed throughout the year.

UWI Cave Hill graduate, Douglas Blackburn collected king helmet shells over the years and decided to see if he could create some of the beautiful things that he saw shell artists do… and succeeded.

Douglas volunteered at the Barbados Museum and saw antiques of sailor’s valentines which are boxes used to hold jewellery and other trinkets that rose to popularity in the 1800s. They were often decorated with shells and given as gifts to the loved ones of the seamen after long voyages.