Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left), accepts one of 1,400 hygiene and nutrition packages from Chargé d'Affaires at the High Commission of Canada, Kevin Gilhooly (third left), at a recent handover ceremony, at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation in St. Andrew. Others pictured (from left) are Chairman of the Centre, Debbyann Brown Salmon; Country Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Richard Kelly, and Principal Director for Gender Affairs at the Ministry, Sharon Coburn Robinson. The supplies are provided under the Canada-funded Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster Recovery (EnGenDer), and Climate and Environment Resilience in the Caribbean projects, from which a COVID-19 response and suport initiative has been developed to support vulnerable persons in 11 Caribbean countries. The project is being implemented by the UNDP, UN Women, the World Food Programme, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CEDEMA).
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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (third left), presents a hygiene and nutrition package to a teen mother at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation in St. Andrew, recently, from the 1,400-package donation from the Canada-funded Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster Recovery (EnGenDer) projects. Others pictured from left are Chairman of the Centre, Debbyann Brown Salmon; Chargé d’Affaires at the High Commission of Canada, Kevin Gilhooly, and Principal Director for Gender Affairs at the Ministry, Sharon Coburn Robinson.
