Trelawny Schools Benefit From Christelle Harris Fund

"The fund began in June 2008 with the aim of providing support for patients at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, and had earlier this year launched a series of projects geared at facilitating improvements in schools in Trelawny."

Beneficiaries are St. Michaels, Dumfries Basic School and Cedric Titus High School.
 
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Free Medical Care Made Possible By Issa Trust Foundation And Couples

"The [Issa Trust Foundation] ITF recently completed a two-week medical mission that saw over 40 paediatric medics providing care and education at several hospitals, including Port Maria, Annotto Bay and Bustamante, according to foundation President Diane Pollard."

"Health centres at Annotto Bay, Highgate, Port Maria and various other communities also benefited."

"The group also held a health fair at Couples Sans Souci where more than 180 children received medical attention."

"At the same time, the medical rotation programme continues, wherein ITF brings a doctor to offer medical care for 30 days over a 12-month period"

The volunteers were also able to get equipment fixed, identify equipment needs and hope to raise funds.

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Jamaica And International Coastal Cleanup Day

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Missionaries Of The Poor Benefits From Donations From Back On The Rack

"Back on the Rack, a recently opened thrift shop on Collins Green Avenue in St Andrew where second-hand men's, ladies' and children's clothes go for as little as $50."

"The venture, which was started by PJ Stewart and a small group of friends about six years ago as an annual sale on the basis that their closets were overflowing, is in support of the Father HoLung-headed charity organisation Missionaries of the Poor and is now done monthly."

""We basically wanted a win-win situation. We wanted people to get clothes that they could not otherwise afford, and at the same time, we wanted to make some money for Missionaries of the Poor," Stewart told the Sunday Observer."

"Back on the Rack operates from a renovated cottage owned by the Sandals/ATL group -- of which the Observer is a member — and opens its doors the last Saturday of every month between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm."

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AMCHAM Business And Civic Leaders - The Winners

"AMCHAM honoured Jamaican corporate and civic leaders as part of a new yearly programme aimed at encouraging corporate social responsibility and philanthropy in Jamaica."

"The event saw Food for the Poor and founder of Students Expressing Truth, Kevin Wallen, recognised for civic leadership by an organisation and an individual respectively; National Dance Theatre Company win an award for art & culture, and Scotiabank Jamaica taking the top prize for corporate social responsibility."

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City Life Ministries Receives Gift From NCB Foundation For West Kingston Students

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Digicel Foundation Opens Another Resource Room

"A resource room with technology to help individuals learn mathematics has been installed at St Joseph's Teachers' College, with the hope that student-teachers will overcome their fear of this important subject to the benefit of

their students."

"The Hazel Keating Resource Room — equipped with computers, literacy and numeracy software, such as Hooked on Phonics and Early Success, television and DVD players and other equipment — was officially handed over to the Kingston-based institution on September 28 by the Digicel Foundation."

"The foundation, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, had already sponsored 15 enrichment rooms in schools islandwide at a cost of $33.6 million, but the centre at St Joseph's gives student-teachers an opportunity to familiarise themselves with technology before they graduate fully to the classroom."

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NCB Foundation Awards Two Scholarships

"THE NCB Foundation opted this year to break with tradition, awarding two students, instead of one, their top academic scholarship."

""This year we were faced with quite an unusual situation — we had 14 excellent candidates based on our parish finals. Because they were all so good, we decided there on the spot to just extend the programme. So from this year forward, one top scholar will be awarded from each sex," Andrew Pairman, director of the NCB Foundation."

"The foundation will cover the full tuition cost of the two top scholars — Chevel Burke and Princeton Brown — offering them each a half a million dollars annually for the duration of their undergraduate programmes. The duo will also have the opportunity to work with the foundation during their summer holidays."

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Kiwanis Club Of Kingston Youth Excellence Awards

 Kiwanis Club of Kingston held its annual Youth Excellence Awards on September 21 2010.  The winners were:

• Robert Williams, 21 who received $50,000 towards tertiary education
• Shantayae Grant, 18 who received the top award for academics
• Ethan Dixon, 19 who received the top award for arts
• Shanique Austin, 18 who received the top award for leadership
• Samar Samuels, 21 who received the top award for sports
• Jermaine Blake, second place for arts
• Shannon Grant, second place for leadership
• Malysha Kelly, second place for sports
• Michelle Ann Gabadon, second place for academics

"The Youth in Excellence project has been in existence since 1998 and is open to applicants between the ages of 13 to 25. It is an initiative taken by the Youth Services committee of the Kiwanis Club of Kingston with the main objectives being to identify and recognize Jamaican youngsters who have achieved excellence in the arts, leadership, sports, and academics."



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Kids For Charity Donates $230,000 For Scholarships

"Fundraiser Courtney Foster last Thursday presented a cheque, valued at $230,000, to the University of the West Indies for the Dr Norman Sinclair Memorial Medical Scholarship."

"The money was raised at Foster's annual Kids for Charity Fashion Show, held on September 6 at the Altamont Court Hotel in New Kingston."

"The scholarship will be awarded to a needy medical student of the university's choice."

"The Dr Norman Sinclair Memorial Medical Scholarship scholarship has so far helped 13 medical students at the Mona campus"

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