Several community members across St. Catherine are benefitting from social interventions by the parish’s Social Development Commission (SDC).
Through the agency’s social service fairs, persons are receiving their Tax Registration Number (TRN), birth certificates, National Insurance Scheme (NIS), grants through the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), according to Acting Parish Manager of the SDC, Shana-Lee Archibald.
She said that through an ongoing partnership with several Ministries and agencies, the SDC is ensuring that the communities access the services, and that over 200 persons have been assisted, recently.
“Taking services to the most vulnerable in communities, or to persons who are not able to access services, that is something that we take pride in doing, and that is only achieved through inter-agency collaboration. There are few more to come…and we have recently forged a new partnership with the National Council on Drug Abuse, as well as the Bureau of Gender Affairs,” she said, in an interview with JIS News. Click here to view full story from JIS