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Testimonials
What JSIF Means To Me
Barrett Town CDC Benevolent Society, St. James - Community Discovery Bay All Age School, St. Ann – School Expansion and
Development Activities Equipping
In 2015 the residents saw an advertisement inviting applications The Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), fulfilled its mandate at the
for summer camps and our application was approved for Discovery Bay All Age and the impact of the project has been
funding but we needed to be a registered legal entity to manage far-reaching. The most significant action was the construction
the camp. To alleviate the challenges faced, there needed of a new classroom block with 8 classrooms complemented
to be a structured group in the community but one of the by a new bathroom block which enabled the removal of the
requirements to form a Community Development Committee shift system under which the school had been operating for
was forty hours of training by the Department of Cooperatives 19 years. The staff at the Discovery Bay All Age School, are
and Friendly Societies and we did not have the first cent. JSIF more than grateful as we have seen vast improvement in our
financed the training and we are a proud registered group today students’ attitude towards learning, and our 2017 GSAT cohort
because of their work and support. Garbage bins and skips have also done well as a result of improved contact hours (with
enclosures were supplied to the community by JSIF and this the elimination of sharing via the shift system), customized
has impacted the community greatly as the residents now classrooms and a welcoming environment more conducive to
have proper receptacles to dispose of their garbage. With the learning. The school community, inclusive of students, teachers,
help and capacity building provided by JSIF the Barrett Town parents and past students, are now prouder to be affiliated with
CDC Benevolent Society was selected to manage the Waste the transformational change that has positively impacted the
Enclosure Project and Zinc Fence Removal Projects. We thank educational landscape of the Discovery Bay All Age School. As
JSIF for the support and impact this organization is having on a community, JSIF has indeed empowered us into maintaining
the community. We are eternally grateful to JSIF for the help, a continuum in realizing the need and benefits of saving and
Barrett Town will never be the same again thanks to JSIF. investing in the future leaders’ through education.
U-PVC fence replacing dilapidated zinc fence along bottom Vietnam Road. Newly constructed eight classroom block.
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