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June 20, 2008
Jamalco Helping Others to Grow
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Several communities and two needy senior citizens in Manchester and Clarendon are now benefiting from Jamalco sponsored projects carried out on Labour Day (May 23), valued at just over J$1 million.
Companies contracted to Jamalco supplemented this amount with contributions totaling $100,000.
Mr. Hervin Lord, a 73 year old farmer from Mount Oliphant, Manchester is being provided with a new house. Mr. Lord’s house was completely destroyed after being damaged, first by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 and by Hurricane Ivan in 2006.
On Labour Day volunteers laid most of the foundation for the structure. Since then, volunteers from Mount Oliphant and nearby Victoria Town have participated in several workdays and have completed laying most of the blocks to finish the walls of the modest house.
In another project, Mr. Ruel Thompson, a blind, indigent man is now warm and dry in his re-roofed and re-painted house. Residents of Mitchell Town, Clarendon came together in five Jamalco-coordinated pre-Labour Day workdays to replace the roof and paint his house. The residents worked on Labour Day to complete the project and the grateful senior citizen moved home shortly after. Mr. Thompson’s family members are now installing a ceiling to complete the work.
Jamalco’s Public & Community Relations Administrator Pamela White explained that providing assistance for these senior citizens is just another way in which Jamalco continues to respond to the needs of persons in host communities.
Jamalco also contributed J$50,000 and six truck loads of top soil to a Green House project at Lennon High School in Mocho, a former mining area. The funds are being used to purchase agricultural grow-bags used to plant seeds.
Members of the Leo Clubs of Clarendon, Kingston and St. Andrew and several Jamalcoans also gave the Brixton Hill Primary & Infant School a facelift and continued work to complete the school’s Computer Laboratory which will benefit some 276 students.
Jamalco’s Wentworth Williams presented a computer to the school’s Principal Elett Allen. Mr. Williams said this computer from Jamalco “represents the first computer for the school and is an incentive for building minds in computer technology”.
Close to 300 community members, Jamalcoans and agency representatives joined in the various projects identified by Jamalco Community Councils on Labour Day.
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