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Lifting Voices of Jamaican Writers

LIFTING VOICES OF JAMAICAN WRITERS

For twenty years, the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund has been assisting Jamaican writers in highlighting the nation’s historic and cultural achievements.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE OPENED AT BETHLEHEM MORAVIAN COLLEGE

The Bethlehem Moravian College officially opened its Early Childhood Centre of Excellence in Malvern, St. Elizabeth on December 6. The Centre was constructed by the CHASE Fund at a cost of $40.3M and will serve as a training facility for student teachers specializing in Early Childhood Education.

PONDSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL GETS NEW CLASSROOMS

With the impending resumption of face-to-face learning, students and staff at Pondside Primary and Infant School in Hanover will benefit from two newly built classrooms, bathroom facilities, a play area, perimeter fencing among other structural improvements. The construction project, valued at J$ 25,410,000 ....

JAMAICA NOW ABLE TO TRACK COVID-19 WITH GENOME SEQUENCER PROVIDED BY CHASE

Jamaica’s coronavirus testing capability has been boosted with the acquisition of a Genome Sequencing machine. The machine, which was handed over to the National Influenza Centre (NIC) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) on October 22, 2021, will allow the NIC to test for variant strains of the coronavirus

CHASE FUND BOOSTING SERVICES PROVIDED BY LIBRARIES

Through a donation of JM $27.5 million from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports, and Education (CHASE) Fund, the JLS was able to respond strongly and enable students to effectively participate in the new learning modalities which have been necessitated by COVID-19.

CHASE FUND PROVIDES $50 MILLION TO EQUIP BASIC SCHOOLS WITH PPEs AND OTHER SUPPLIES

The country’s early-childhood institutions have benefited from much-needed support to better enable them to operate within the health and safety guidelines stipulated by the Government to reduce transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Through funding of $50 million from the CHASE Fund ...

CHASE FUND TO PROVIDE 2,000 TABLET COMPUTERS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INSTUITUTIONS

Over 2,000 students have benefitted from tablet computers donated by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund to early childhood institutions across Jamaica to facilitate virtual learning.

700,000 JAMAICANS TO BENEFIT FROM DONATION OF SURGICAL EQUIPMENT BY CHASE FUND

More than 700,000 Jamaicans in the parishes of St. Elizabeth, Manchester and Clarendon are benefitting from improved access to healthcare through the donation of $32 million by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund for the acquisition of surgical equipment for health facilities in the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA).

CHASE FUND DONATES $27.5M TO THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA

Deputy Director of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), Nicole Patrick-Shaw, describes the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund’s donation of $27.5 million to bolster the organisation’s work, as “game-changing!”

Culture

libraries, archives, historic sites, documentation facilities, cultural activities, monuments, documentary film footage

Health

equipping and upgrading health facilities, training of personnel, cancer prevention, detection, treatment and care, kidney failure treatment, programmes for prevention of drug abuse, health care for the mentally challenge