Rita Marley As the Matriarch of the Marley Family, Nana Rita Marley wears many hats and has been instrumental in the initiation and completion of great works internationally, regionally and locally. In 1986, she had the vision and wisdom to transform Bob Marley’s house into the Bob Marley Museum. It is in her capacity as Founder and Chairperson of the Robert Marley Foundation; the Bob Marley Museum; the Bob Marley Trust; the Bob Marley Group of Companies and the Rita Marley Foundation - that Rita continues to make manifest her commitment to the works of her husband Bob Marley; her children [the GRAMMY

Award winning Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers]; and her people - by fulfilling her mission to enlighten, educate and entertain through her philanthropy and music.

Sister Rita is head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Building Fund whose main project is the erecting of a Cathedral at their Maxfield Avenue address, where she has also established the Berhame Selassie Home for the Aged. Her donation of two hundred and fifty acres of arable land to the Rastafarian Nyabinghi group in St, Toolies, Clarendon has encouraged their self-supporting ideology. Nana Rita also gives continuous support of food, clothing and medical supplies to people of poor communities, including a Home for the Aged in St.Mary.

As a benefactor of countless humanitarian causes Nana Rita’s works extend outside of Jamaica and has reached as far as Africa. A patron of the Konkonuru Methodist Schools in the Aburi Mountains of Accra, Ghana, she is always soliciting assistance for the children and the Konkonuru village, where she has successfully spearheaded the repairs to the main road as well as the drilling of a water well for the community.