The NCB Foundation and the top-five Digicel Rising Stars have forged a partnership to do charitable work. The finalists have each identified an organisation in their community that could use some assistance. The individual projects of all the top-five contestants are currently posted on the NCB Foundation website, www.ncbfoundation.org, along with short video clips of each contestant explaining their project. However, only two of the projects will be carried out by NCB, the viewer's choice, which is the project most voted for, and the project of the Digicel Rising Stars winner.

The contestants all decided to base this year's projects around their community's youths through education, sports and recreation.

Moments

As past students of the Davis Primary School in Old Harbour, Fabian and Andrew of Moments realised just how badly this institution serving more than 700 students needs a proper recreational area, as it is currently without one. Believing that the life of the community is dying because the community's youths are not being engaged, they are hopeful that a multi-purpose recreational area, including a netball and basketball court and a football field, will help to prevent this.

Sandy

Sandy, who was recently voted off the show, is also interested in helping the youths, but at a much younger level. The Jackson Town Basic School in Kingston only serves a population of 12 students, but the school is still lacking in basic educational infrastructure, a problem that is all too common in many schools across Jamaica. These students have to try to learn in unfinished, unpainted classrooms which also lack basic amenities such as desks, chairs, a chalk board and proper flooring. Sandy's aim is to make these classrooms more conducive to learning, while providing other educational resources.

Princess Tia

The Whitehall Early Childhood Institute, Princess Tia's alma mater, caters to pre-school children between the ages of two and six years, and currently has 90 students enrolled. It is one of two basic schools currently serving the Whitehall community. Her project is to partition this building into three classrooms and one lunch room, tile the classroom floors, purchase three ceiling fans for the classrooms, and a refrigerator for the kitchen. She hopes that by giving the students a more comfortable learning environment, they will be better able to succeed.

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar has stated on more than one occasion her love for her Bouge Hill community, and her passion to help see her 'family members' succeed, especially the youth. Being a single mother and knowing how hard it can be to send children back to school, her project is to provide educational assistance to the poverty-stricken youths in her community whose parents cannot afford to send them back to school. Her aim is to provide this educational assistance through scholarships and book grants to 11 needy children. These children, who have already been selected based on their academic performance, lack the financial support to attend school on a regular basis. The scholarships will pay the developmental fees as well as purchase books and other necessary supplies for these students who range from the primary to high school level.

Adena

The Victoria Court Educational Learning Centre currently caters to the youth of Adena's Whitehall community, but sadly, not very well. The community centre is supposed to cater to GSAT level children performing below standard. However, without the basic educational amenities, it fails to do so effectively. Her project will involve the purchasing of two computers, books and teaching aids, desks and chairs and the installation of bookshelves. Her ultimate goal is to upgrade the centre to cater to all students between the GSAT and CXC level.

If you would like a particular project to benefit, vote for the corresponding Digicel Rising Star contestant.