Every Smile
Emotional wellbeing
Events and days out that give children the joy they have been deprived of.
Community impact
Every Meal. Every Mikkle. Every Smile.
Great food has the power to bring people together. Together with the Every Mikkle Foundation, we are helping create brighter futures for children and young people across Jamaica, Ghana and communities around the world.
Every mikkle mek a muckle
A Jamaican proverb: every little contribution, combined with others, makes something significant. It is where the Foundation got its name, and it is how community work actually happens — small acts, added up.
Our story
From two students to a movement
October 2013
Two students, one idea
A very small group of young Jamaican students wanted to make a change. With no resources and little experience — but faith, determination and talent — the Every Mikkle Foundation was born.
24 December 2013
The first Christmas Eve Fun Day
Two months after inception, two students with an idea had become 25 students with a purpose and a plan. That Christmas, they helped over 50 residents across three children's homes.
Since 2013
From 25 to more than 150 volunteers
The original 25 stayed, and more than 125 others joined them. Every initiative aims to improve the quality of life of the young people the Foundation serves.
Today
Thirteen countries
Work has reached young people in Jamaica, Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ghana, Kenya, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Trinidad and Australia.
Ongoing
Mek a muckle
The mission, put simply, is to amass talented young people who help underprivileged youth survive and thrive through education, global awareness, events and resources.
Impact numbers
What the mikkles add up to
Figures on this page are reported to us by the Every Mikkle Foundation and are reviewed quarterly. Each number shows its source and the date it was last verified.
Young people impacted
Across education, welfare and youth development programmes
Source — Reported by the Every Mikkle Foundation · Inception 2013 to July 2026 · last verified 31 July 2026
Countries reached
Fourteen countries have taken part; individual country profiles are published as the Foundation supplies them
Source — Reported by the Every Mikkle Foundation · Inception 2013 to July 2026 · last verified 31 July 2026
Events and initiatives
Fun days, drives, outreach and programme deliveries
Source — Reported by the Every Mikkle Foundation · Inception 2013 to July 2026 · last verified 31 July 2026
Volunteers and members
People who give their time to the Foundation
Source — Reported by the Every Mikkle Foundation · As at July 2026 · last verified 31 July 2026
Community and organisational partners
Schools, community groups, businesses and organisations
Source — Reported by the Every Mikkle Foundation · As at July 2026 · last verified 31 July 2026
The four pillars
Every Smile. Every Education. Every Dream. Every Future.
Every Education
Learning
Educational opportunities and resources for young people who would otherwise go without.
Every Dream
Opportunity
Honing talent, because every young person has gifts worth developing.
Every Future
Long-term success
Global awareness and the resources to survive and thrive, not just get by.
Stories
Days that actually happened
Jamaica · December 2013
The Christmas Eve Fun Day that started everything
Two months after the Foundation was formed, 25 student volunteers gave more than 50 residents of three children's homes the Christmas they had been deprived of.
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On 24 December 2013, the Every Mikkle Foundation held its first annual event. What began as two students with an idea had become 25 students with a purpose and a plan. By the end of the day, over 50 residents across three children's homes in Jamaica had had a Christmas of their own. It remains the Foundation's founding story, and the reason its volunteers still describe the work as a "mikkle" that became a "muckle".
Jamaica · June 2023
A day at the Dare to Care Children's Home
The Foundation spent an unforgettable day with the children at Dare to Care, alongside the Abtar family — Jerk Harbour's founders — and their children.
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The Every Mikkle Foundation described it simply: an unforgettable day at the Dare to Care Children's Home, spent with the children alongside the Abtar family and their children. It is the kind of day that does not appear in an annual report — no fundraising target, no campaign — just people turning up. For Jerk Harbour's founders it is where the partnership stopped being an idea and became something the family does.
Volunteers on the road
Foundation volunteers packing and handing out food and supplies — the everyday work between the big events.
Read story
Between the annual events sits the ordinary work: boxes packed, boots on the road, supplies handed to people who need them. The Foundation's volunteers photograph these days themselves, and they are the clearest picture of what "every mikkle" actually looks like day to day.
Global impact
Where the Foundation has worked
Caribbean
Where the Foundation began, and where its Christmas Eve Fun Day started in 2013.
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
West Africa
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people. Jerk Harbour's home.
North America
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Europe
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
South America
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
East Africa
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Southern Africa
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
Oceania
Named by the Foundation among the countries where it has helped young people.
How Jerk Harbour and Every Mikkle are connected
The Every Mikkle Foundation is a separate community organisation. Jerk Harbour is a supporter and partner, not the Foundation's owner, trustee or fundraising agent, and the two are not the same legal entity.
- What we contribute
- Our support today is in-kind and event-based: food and catering for community days, volunteer hours from our team, use of our space, and promotion of the Foundation's work to our guests and corporate clients. Where we contribute funds, we do so as a business, from business income.
- What your bill does not do
- Buying food at Jerk Harbour does not generate a fixed donation. There is no per-meal, per-order or percentage-of-bill donation in place, and we do not collect money for the Foundation. If that ever changes, we will publish the mechanism, the amount and how it is reported before we claim it.
- Who handles donations
- The Every Mikkle Foundation is responsible for receiving and processing all donations, through its own official channels. Nothing given to the Foundation is a payment to Jerk Harbour, and we make no claim about tax treatment.
- About our promise
- “Every Meal. Every Mikkle. Every Smile.” is our brand promise about why we do this work. It is not a statement that each meal triggers a donation.
The honest chain
No exaggeration, no small print. Here is the honest chain between a plate of jerk chicken and a young person receiving support.
- 1
You eat at Jerk Harbour
- 2
We support community initiatives
- 3
Every Mikkle delivers programmes
- 4
Children and young people benefit
Jerk Harbour supports the Every Mikkle Foundation through an ongoing partnership. Trading as a business lets us contribute time, food and funds to community work. We do not claim a fixed donation from every individual meal, and donations made through this page go directly to the Foundation.
Ways to help
Add your mikkle
Volunteer
The Foundation is built by young people who give their time. Reach out through its own channels to join.
Volunteer with Every Mikkle — opens an external site in a new tabDonate
All giving is handled by the Every Mikkle Foundation on its own channels. Jerk Harbour does not collect donations, and no part of your bill here is a charitable donation.
Give on the Foundation's page — opens the Every Mikkle Foundation’s own donation page in a new tabPartner with us
Businesses in Accra can support community work alongside us. Talk to our team about what that could look like.
Talk to our teamCorporate support
Book corporate catering with Jerk Harbour and support a business that funds community work.
Explore corporate cateringFundraise
Host a fundraiser, share the work, or bring your team together over food for a cause.
Donations are handled by the Every Mikkle Foundation directly. We are not able to take donations here.
Gallery
Photographs from the work
Photography supplied by the Every Mikkle Foundation.
Come and eat. That is enough.
You are never asked to donate to eat here. Enjoy the food, and the rest follows.