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financed by the Community Investment Project,
provided US$1.7 million for 10 initiatives that built
new infrastructure, or expanded and rehabilitated
existing locations.

Through the Bank’s flagship poverty reduction Old Harbour Primary School, St. Catherine, which received 10 additional classrooms through CDB
initiative, the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), CDB funding.
has also invested in early childhood development.
Under the programme’s fifth and sixth cycle,
US$1.3 million supported new infrastructure,
expansion, rehabilitation and organizational
strengthening to deliver better outcomes for

CDB invested in the rehabilitation of Brown’s Hall Primary School in St. Catherine. Students are also benefitting from a safer and more sanitary school, thanks to fencing
and washroom facilities added during the rehabilitation.

Jamaica’s youngest students. Through the “Under the
organizational strengthening initiatives, teachers seventh cycle
and stakeholders of early childhood development of BNTF, CDB
centres and facilities received training in areas contributed a
such as financial management, planning and US$2.76 million
management, organisation management and grant to benefit
parenting.

Students in their new classrooms at Old Harbour Primary School, 7,500 students.”
St Catherine, which was expanded and rehabilitated by funding
from CDB.

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