800 Beneficiaries Set to Be Engaged in JSIF’s Summer Camp 2024
August 19, 2024
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Beneficiaries of the August Town community getting ready for a game of football at the Papine High School.The Full Story
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) through its Integrated Community Development Project II (ICDP II), will engage approximately 800 beneficiaries in their annual Summer Camp programme.
These Summer Camp initiatives cost approximately Sixteen Million Jamaican Dollars (JMD$16,000,000) and is funded by the Government of Jamaica.
The primary objective of this project is to provide structured educational, recreational, behavioural support services and school supplies to students during the summer period.
The targeted parishes are Kingston & St. Andrew spanning the communities of Denham Town, August Town, Parade Gardens and Greenwich Town, Clarendon, the Treadlight Community, St. James, the communities of Anchovy, Norwood, Mount Salem and Salt Spring and in Westmoreland, communities within the environs of Savanna-la-mar.
For decades, JSIF continues to positively impact the lives of youth who reside in vulnerable Communities through the implementation of various quality social intervention programmes.
According to Mona Sue-Ho, Senior Manager for Social Development at JSIF, “the ICDP 11 Summer Camp activities provide students between the ages 11 and 17 years with an enriching and high-quality camp experience by offering varied menu of activities including sport, the visual and performing arts and life skills. These activities build character and personal competence in a range of skills which are critical to their growth and development, so we at JSIF are proud to invest heavily in community development”.
Establishing partnerships are crucial of the successful staging of these Community initiatives.
The main partners of these project initiatives are Ministry of Education and Youth, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Jamaica Defense Force, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Fight for Peace, Community-Based Development Committees, University of Technology, Jamaica, Jamaica Badminton Association, Jamaica Basketball Association, Kiwanis Club of New Kingston And Kiwanis Club of Downtown Kingston.
The Integrated Community Development Project II (ICDP II), is implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund and aims to enhance access to basic infrastructure developments and social intervention programmes in vulnerable communities across Jamaica.