HOLDING firm to the belief that education is for improving the lives of citizens while providing stability in our homes and communities, the LASCO Chin Foundation, along with the Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) and the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), recognised the immense work of Jamaican educators at the LASCO/MoEY/JTC 2022 principal and teacher […]
The LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF), in association with the Ministry of Education and the Jamaica Teaching Council, is honouring the innovative spirit and resilience of Jamaican educators with Principal and Teacher of the Year Awards which is set to be held on Friday (February 3). Leading up to the event, Jamaicans have the opportunity to
Twenty-four young people drawn from 12 communities in four parishes have been trained in various aspects of economic management. The training was conducted by LASCO Chin Foundation under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Positive Pathways grant initiative. Programme Manager of LASCO Chin Foundation Paul Irving explained that “we are training young people
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THE Lasco Chin Foundation recently partnered with Florida-based, Jamaican-owned media company About Her Culture to provide a micro grant of US$500 to a woman entrepreneur or non-profit founder. Jamaican non-profit founder, psychologist and educator Kenene Senior was chosen as the micro grant recipient for the first of what will be several micro grants given to
Richmond Park Church of the Nazarene’s Reverend Dr Andrew Henry enjoys a light moment with Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) President Patsy Edwards Henry (second right) and LASCO Chin Foundation Operations and Programme Manager Tahirah Fraser (right) at the close of the NAJ/LASCO Nurses Week church service last Sunday, July 17. Sharing in the moment
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Founder and executive chairman of LASCO Chin Foundation, Lascelles Chin, beams with pride after he presented the 2022-2023 NAJ/LASCO Nurse of the Year award to Alicia Adamson (centre), nurses’ manager at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, and 2022-2023 NAJ/LASCO Student Nurse of the Year La-Daniel Campbell from Brown’s Town Community College School of Nursing. The 2022 NAJ/LASCO
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The LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) is collaborating with partners to ramp up efforts to equip mainly Caribbean women with the skills needed to effectively respond to COVID-related business challenges. The Foundation recently celebrated the matriculation of its first cohort of trainees under its ‘Swift E-Skills’ Training Programme, launched in January of this year. The collaborative
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In the midst of another devastation in Haiti after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck near Les Cayes, Jérémie and other areas of Southwest Haiti, there is a ray of hope!!! Since 2011, Trees That Feed Foundation (TTFF) has worked closely with organizations and individuals in the affected areas of Haiti, primarily in planting breadfruit trees
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On June 9, 2020, an online Zoom Forum entitled, “Caring through COVID,” brought together 11 out of 33 organizations that have partnered with the LASCO Chin Foundation in providing more than 14,000 Care Packages to needy families across Jamaica. The Honorable Lascelles Chin, Founder and Executive Chairman of the LASCO Affiliated Companies and Chairman of
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MONTEGO BAY, St James – Michael Ellis, the principal of Cornwall College, says the recent distribution of care packages by the Lasco Chin Foundation to parents of students from schools across St James, could not have come at a better time. Schools from around the parish, including high schools, were included in a national outreach that
