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Fifty-five residents of nine communities in four parishes Bank-funded Integrated Community Development Project
were trained and certified as environmental wardens under (ICDP), under its Alternative Livelihood Component. This sub-
the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF’s) Integrated project facilitated the positive development of youth through
Community Development Project (ICDP). the provision of a wide range of social services, including skills
training, apprenticeship and behaviour modification services
The wardens hailed from Canaan Heights, York Town , Bucknor, that support youth employment creation and public safety.
and Treadlight in Clarendon; Steer Town in St. Ann; Anchovy,
Barrett Town, Flanker, Granville and Retirement in St. James; Farmers who cultivated at Braco Farms, Trelawny benefitted
and Russia in Westmoreland. from a $11.7-million drip irrigation system that was expected to
significantly increase their crop yield. The system was funded
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and Sandals by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under the Rural
Resorts International, signed a Memorandum of Understanding Economic Development Initiative.
(MOU) to create and implement a specialised youth workforce
Graduation
2015development project. The project formed part of the World ceremony-ICBSP
Environmental
Wardens.
Farewell to JSIF’s Founding MD
Scarlette Gillings, CD, JSIF’s founding Managing Director (Centre), with Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller (right) and Opposition Leader, Andrew Holness (left), at her
farewell function as she left the Fund after nineteen (19) years in the position.
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