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Eliminating the shift system in schools across the island was Farmers from Watt Town in Trelawny, under the Greenhouse
a priority for the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), project, (a collaboration of JSIF through its World Bank-funded
through the Caribbean Development Bank’s -Basic Needs Trust Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI), the Jamaica
Fund and facilitated the expansion and rehabilitation of five (5) Bauxite Institute (JBI) and Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners),
primary schools across three (3) parishes. proved the initiative a success.
Furthermore, in contributing to a clean and healthy environment
for all Jamaicans, JSIF along with the residents of Majesty
Gardens, rehabilitated the community’s sanitary facility,
assisted in the reduction of fires and with financial aid from the
World Bank, implemented the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction
Project (DVRP) which aids in managing disasters and climate
risks.
FSMA Food Storage facility at Braco.
2016
Mandeville Primary Comes Off the
Shift System.
Mandeville Primary received 12 classrooms under the Basic Needs Trust Fund 7th Programme which provided enough space for them to come off the sift
system.
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