Winners of the JPS Foundation’s Grant Get Boost on Labour Day 2023

Winners of the JPS Foundation’s Grant for Labour Day were delighted with this year’s observation, when they not only won funding for their projects, but also the contribution of labour from scores of JPS Volunteers On Location To Serve (known better by their acronym JPS VOLTS).  Earlier in May, the JPS Foundation sent out a call for Projects for Labour Day, to be nominated to receive a grant of $600,000 to assist in funding these initiatives.  Several projects were nominated and voted on, via the JPS Foundation’s Instagram Page – with two winning passion projects, plus a bonus project, receiving funding and labour to enhance education and community development.

The volunteers showed up at Grove Primary School in Gordon Town, St. Andrew; Irwin High School in Montego Bay, St. James; and the Cacoon community in Hanover.  The exercise saw teams painting and carrying out general cleaning and repairs at Grove Primary School, while the team at Irwin High handed over a stove for the Food & Nutrition Lab, in addition to giving the Lab a face lift.

VOLTS in Hanover, made good on their technical skills, to help retrofit a steel container into a fully functional Community Service Organization Office and Learning Centre.  The retrofitting of the container will also assist in providing a suitable place for the preparation of meals under the Children’s Breakfast Programme, run by the Cacoon Community Development Committee.

Speaking about the day’s endeavours, Head of the JPS Foundation, Sophia Lewis noted that, “it was a pleasure, to not only make a financial contribution to these worthwhile projects, but also to put in the sweat equity, because we’re not just an organization – we are a member of the community. We are family.”

JPS VOLTS Volunteered All Over the Island! || Our Labour Day Vlog