About Us

Elder Jared Prescott was serving as a missionary in April 1993 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He lost his life there in a tragic accident on April 25 of that year.

At the time of his death a number of friends and family donated to the family. The family decided to use this money to form The Jared Prescott Charitable Trust. In June 1993 they added personal funds to the donations and began searching for projects that would help those in need.

Jared and the the other missionaries did service at an orphanage in Antananarivo, Madagascar so it was natural for the trust’s first project to help this orphanage. From that beginning the main focus of the trust has been on helping provide better opportunities for education and other humanitarian projects.

Subsequently, through the help of Clarence and Jayne Jones, who had been humanitarian missionaries in Myanmar, the trust became involved in 2008 with humanitarian projects in Myanmar. Through 2025 the trust has funded the building of 34 schools for villages(3 of the schools were in refugee camps), plus two women’s education centers for underprivileged women in Myanmar as well as numerous other humanitarian projects.