Providence
A place to put down roots.
Colleagues live on campus — a self-contained community of a few hundred souls on an island the Foundation owns outright.
Your address rises with you
New colleagues take a dormitory room — furnished, warm, and a short walk from the Call Center. As you rise, so does your address: a row house, and in time perhaps a detached home with a garden you may plant as you like.
Nothing about your home is standard-issue beyond the walls. Colleagues paint, build, collect, and swap furniture at the store. Most of what makes a Providence house look like someone in particular lives in it was carried in by that someone.
What is here
There is a company store, a clinic, a constable's office, and a building for quiet reflection which is not a chapel and which we would ask you not to call one. There is a school-house that has never been needed, and which we keep heated. There is more coastline than anyone can walk in an afternoon.
You are safe here, even from the things you have forgotten.
Getting here, and going home
There is no road to Providence, because there is no land to run one on. The company ferry sails on the company timetable and carries colleagues and guests both ways. Leaving is never forbidden — it is simply not sailing today, and the company is very sorry.
A licensed fishing fleet works out of the quay. Catch is weighed, fuel is rationed, departures are stamped. This is ordinary good stewardship and we mention it only so that you are not surprised by the paperwork.
Colleagues share more than an address here. Life together →