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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (centre), signs a contract for the staging of a summer camp in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, while Member of Parliament for the area, Desmond McKenzie (left); and Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Managing Director, Omar Sweeney, also affix their signatures. Occasion was the signing of contracts for the staging of 24 JSIF-organised camps across the island, at the Caribbean Palms Estate community centre in South West St. Andrew.
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The Government of Jamaica is investing $29.7 million in a series of summer campus, targeted at low income youths in seven parishes.
A total of 2, 175 children and young adults, age six to 30, will benefit from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF)-organised camps, which will be held throughout July and August. Among the beneficiaries are unattached young people, who are either out of school or unemployed.