Diaspora Group Makes $250,000 Donation to Falmouth Infant School
By: , June 30, 2023
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Acting Principal of Falmouth Infant School, Patrice Beharie (right), receives a symbolic cheque for $250,000 from local member of Friends of Falmouth, Patrice Simpson. The presentation took place at the school on Tuesday (June 27).The Full Story
The 81 students at the Falmouth Infant School in Trelawny who will be transitioning to the primary level in September will receive financial assistance to purchase school supplies.
A $250,000 cheque, donated by Friends of Falmouth, a New York-based non-profit organisation, was handed over to the school’s Acting Principal, Patrice Beharie, during a ceremony at the institution on Tuesday (June 27).
Local members of the group, Florence Logan and Patrice Simpson, made the presentation.
Mrs. Logan said that the funds will be disbursed in the form of vouchers to the beneficiary students for the purchase of books and other items.
Seventy-nine students will receive vouchers for $3,000, while the top-two students, identified by the teachers, will each receive $5,000.
The vouchers are redeemable at Trelawny Pharmacy & Book Supplies in Falmouth.
Mrs. Logan said Friends of Falmouth recognises the important role that Falmouth Infant School has played in the formative years of several generations of children from the Trelawny capital.
“It (the school) has helped to shape [our] lives to achieve higher education and we are now playing our various roles in different areas of society,” she noted.
“We feel that it is important to give back to where we came from, so that students who are attending [the school] now and those to come will have an opportunity to excel,” she added.
The Acting Principal welcomed the support. “We are appreciative of this new partnership that we are forging with Friends of Falmouth. I just want to say thank you. We are looking forward to working with the organisation,” she said.
“It is always good to know that we have someone on board to lend support to the school,” she added, noting that Falmouth Infant School has faithfully served the community of Falmouth and its surroundings.
The donation came from the proceeds of a series of fundraising events staged by Friends of Falmouth in New York during the month of May.
The group, which has adopted the institution, will be spearheading projects to improve the school, which opened its doors in 1962 – the year of Jamaica’s Independence.