Refuge of Hope gets donation worth $250,000 from JCA jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From left to right: CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Executives Renee Whitehorne, Marketing Manager and Nigel Holness, Managing Director, present a cheque for one million dollars to Major Marcia Morris and her husband Major Oral Morris Divisional Commander, of the Salvation Army, Eastern Division.
Eight local charities are the beneficiaries of the generosity of the CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank.
Sharing in the pool of $3 million were the Salvation Army, Food For The Poor, Missionaries of the Poor, Willow’s Mite, and the Bread Basket Missionaries in Ocho Rios; the Portland Rehabilitation Management Centre, the Open Heart Charitable Mission, Montego Bay and the Randolph Lopez School of Hope, Port Antonio.
Whitter Group brings good tidings to the poor and needy jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Angella Whitter (second right), managing director of the Whitter Group of Companies, with representatives of three St James-based charity groups that collectively received $500,000 in donations from Whitter Village in Ironshore, St James. Also pictured (from left) are Joy Crooks, nurse administrator of the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill; Jacqueline Wilson, matron of the St James Infirmary; and Sandra Henry, operations manager of the Open Heart Charitable Mission.
WESTERN BUREAU:
Three charity organisations that cater to St James’ less fortunate residents have been given good reason to sing praise this Christmas as the Whitter Group of Companies donated a combined sum of J$500,000 on Monday to support their operations.