It is one which we would love to have replicated throughout the island,” he added. “Although your group is relatively new, I know members would have been providing voluntary support long before your commitment to collaborate with the partnership in education. “I acknowledge the work of the Ackee Tree Group and your commitment to provide support for boys and girls who are academically gifted but financially challenged,” the Minister said. The Minister commended the Group for its work and said he hopes the effort will motivate other Jamaicans at home and abroad to get involved with charitable and voluntary work across the island. Ruel Reid, was Senior Education Officer (Clarendon, Region 6/7), Floyd Kelly.

I know with this scholarship, she will do greater things in the future,” she added.ĭelivering a message from Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. “From the start, she showed great potential and is always doing well in school. She thanked the teachers and her family for believing in her daughter. Kimberlee Francis, mother of Sheveka Anderson, told JIS News that the scholarship “is a blessing”. Lee Chong, father of Lejaun Chong who received a scholarship, the project “is an immeasurable initiative, and we are behind it and will support it”. Members of the Ackee Tree Group are mainly persons born in Porus but who now reside in the United States, Canada and England.įor Mr. The presentation ceremony took place at the Trinity Baptist Church in Porus, Manchester, on Saturday, July 7. Jago and Ramble Primary who were successful in their GSAT examinations and are headed to various high schools in September, as well as students from Porus High School, Porus and Wright’s Early Childhood Institutions, received scholarship money. Jamaica News:Members of the Ackee Tree Group have donated $1,045,000 in scholarships to 24 students from Porus and surrounding communities in Manchester.

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