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The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) was allocated St. Thomas, St Catherine and St Mary. A minimum of 30 projects
a sum of $300 million by the government, to carry out were scheduled to be completed at a total cost of $150 million.
poverty alleviation programmes in 2004: a total of $3.1 million
was spent to upgrade sanitary facilities at the Ewarton Primary JSIF’s Partners with Digicel to build the
School in St. Catherine; Zion Mount Basic School in Eastern Lake’s Pen Basic school
Hanover was rehabilitated at a cost of $2.8 million; and JSIF
also built a new school building for some 120 students at the
Mt. Pelier Basic School in Eastern Hanover, at a cost of $4.7
million during 2004.

The Fund also donated items valued at more than $173,000 to Medina to Mayfield (l-r) Mr. Denis O’ Brien, Digicel Chairman and Mrs.
the Hamilton Mountain Basic School in St. Mary. Since 1996, Road Work In Scarlette Gillings, JSIF Managing Director, unveil the
JSIF successfully completed 469 projects throughout the Progress. plaque for the Lakes pen Basic School. Mr. David Hall,
most underserved areas of the island, with some 619 projects Digicel CEO looks on.
approved to date representing a total investment of $3.1 billion.
JSIF funded 135 projects in inner-city communities in Kingston,

2004

JSIF through its National Community Development Project 2005
(NCDP), expended more than $150 million to assist scores
of basic, primary and all-age schools that suffered varying expansion and equipping of schools, building community
degrees of damage following the passage of Hurricane Ivan centres, rehabilitation of roads, construction of water supply
in 2005. More than 100 educational institutions were targeted facilities and organizational strengthening.
by JSIF to receive financial assistance to undertake repairs.
In addition to the repair programme carried out under the Before After
NCDP, JSIF also completed a host of projects including: the
rehabilitation of several community centres; the fencing of a Before and after photos of the Karl Samuda (Black Ants Lane) Avenue Road
number of schools; construction of basic schools and health Rehabilitation, St. Andrew. This was funded by the European Union Poverty
centres; and the upgrading of the sanitation and infrastructure Reduction Programme I.
facilities at several schools. Hurricane Ivan was one of the
worst natural disasters to hit Jamaica since Hurricane Gilbert.
Since its inception in 1996, the Jamaica Social Investment
Fund (JSIF) had invested approximately $613 million in 138
community development projects in the parishes of St. James,
Hanover, Trelawny and Westmoreland to benefit some 85,000
persons. The projects included: the construction, rehabilitation,

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