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  • - Progamme in Final Year; Changes Lives Forever

  • April 20, 2010 - Scotiabank Jamaica today handed over a brand new Nissan Caravan to the Jamaica Red Cross to replace the organization’s bus which was stolen by criminal elements in October 2008. Since then, the organization has been conducting it outreach initiatives with a vehicle which was on loan to the organization.

  • Going to school for 50 small children at the Alexandria and Hope Basic Schools in New Ground Clarendon is an exciting adventure, as with all children their age. They are oblivious to the fact that it’s a cellar in the principal’s home and a changing room in the community centre that’s “school”. Teachers and students in the changing room deal with a leaking roof, no windows, no doors and rough concrete floors which left the children with several bruises when they fall.

  • Grade 6 students Rashade and Sapphire are not the typical 12 year olds living in an inner city community. They are brilliant straight ‘A’ students with exemplary behavior destined for a big break in life! This says, Cecile Palmer, their principal at Holy Family Primary, an inner-city school located in Central Kingston where despite the harsh economic circumstances parents, students come to school daily, are fed a balanced meal and perform exceptionally well. At least, all the students in the Scotiabank sponsored breakfast feeding programme!

  • Pearnel Charles (left), member of parliament for North Central Clarendon, joins Scotiabank President and CEO Bruce Bowen (centre) and Wayne Hewitt, senior vice-president of corporate and commercial banking, in unveiling the sign of the newly constructed Alexandria Hope Early Childhood institution in New Ground. - Contribute

    Scotiabank Jamaica and Food For The Poor officially handed over the newly built Alexandria Hope Basic School to the community of New Ground, Clarendon, last week.

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