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Eleven year old Rashane Campbell, resident of the Grotto community in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland receives his certificate of participation in the Savanna-la-Mar Resolution Project from Virginia Turner, Project Manager for Rural Development, Jamaica National Building Society Foundation.

Last week, the JN Foundation team spent the day at the UWI Mona Source. The Source is a community resource centre set up by the JN Foundation. Currently there are five source centres in underserved communities islandwide.

After being run by the JN Foundation for four years, the Source August Town was handed over to the UWI Mona Township Project. Now referred to as 'The UWI Mona Source', this community resource centre is the heartbeat of August Town!

Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), and JN Foundation’s Act!on volunteers celebrated the Easter with residents of Cluster H on Thursday, April 5, 2012. With support from Act!on volunteers, residents were treated to bun and cheese, and entertained through music, skits, and games.    Llamont DeCambre, JN employee, listens keenly to a resident at cluster H.

 
The Jamaica National Building Society (JN) Foundation, on Wednesday March 28, 2012, signed a Funding Agreement with the Jamaica Library Service (JLS) to assist in supporting the ‘We Likkle but We Tallawah: Parents Reading with Babies and Toddlers’ programme.
 

The JN Foundation officially launched its ACT!ON JAMAICA Volunteer Corps at the Do Good Jamaica/ Kingston Book Festival on Saturday, March 17. Our eight volunteers recruited 111 persons to join the programme and Take Action in offering their skills and talents to support community development across the island. 

The JN Foundation awarded a bursary to the University of the West Indies, Western Campus in honour of the recent launch of the new JN Financial Centre in Catherine Hall, Montego Bay. In this photo, Chairman of the JNBS Foundation, Mr. Earl Jarrett, shows Mr. Michael Williams and Ms. Aneika Rowe (UWI Administrator and Bursary recipient) some of the photos taken by students in St. James of the sights and scenes of this lovely Parish. These photos form part of a permanent exhibition which can be viewed in the new state of the art financial centre.

With support from JN Foundation and other partners, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has produced a 13 episode series entitled “Justice For All” - now being shown on TVJ.
 
The goal of this thought-provoking and innovative project is to educate all Jamaicans about various rights under the law and their importance as well as systems available for redress of breaches of rights. The show offers practical tips and advice to viewers about their specific rights and responsibilities under the law, such as what to do when arrested or how to protect children’s rights, what to do about domestic abuse, or what is the entitlement to legal aid and how to access it. By empowering viewers with knowledge of their rights, we hope to encourage the active participation of Jamaicans in civic governance and improve accountability and transparency at all levels of society. Click here to visit JFJ.

High school students all across Jamaica are ready to become advocates for change in their communities! The 2011/2012 cycle of our Resolution Project advocacy through photography programme was launched with a series of workshops between October 26 and November 3. This group from the Savanna-la-Mar workshop includes students from Grange Hill High, Manning's High, Savanna-la-Mar High, Frome Technical High and Godfrey Stewart High. Ready, Aim, Inspire...

JN/ USAID project to boost third sector in Jamaica. Karen Hilliard (left, seated), Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Earl Jarrett (right, seated), Chairman of the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) Foundation, sign a memorandum of understanding between JNBS Foundation and USAID at the JNBS Chief Office on Wednesday, October 19. James Burrowes, (left, standing) Office Director, USAID and Saffrey Brown, General Manager, JNBS Foundation look on.