SOUTH FLORIDA – On a latest mission trip to Jamaica, the South Florida based mostly, Jamaican Girls of Florida (JWOF) made a donation of $12,500 to Melody Home for Women in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
JWOF President, Janice McIntosh advised JIS Information, “the importance of the contribution is rooted in the truth that the ladies residing at Melody House age out of the system at 18 years outdated, which is a essential and weak stage of their lives”.
“At 18 years outdated, they’re nonetheless very younger and really impressionable to have the world unleashed upon them. It’ll be too quickly; and so the truth that they’ll keep at a transitional dwelling the place they’ll be till age 25, is sort of environment friendly,” Ms. McIntosh outlines.
Expressing Gratitude
Melody Home’s Operations Supervisor, Yvette Mahoney, and one of many unique founders and Director, Christine Dexter, have been available to gather the donation in addition to to specific gratitude.
“I actually need to categorical the utmost quantity of gratitude to the Jamaica Girls of Florida. They’ve completed a lot for us over time, even once they have been so much smaller in quantity,” Yvette Mahoney identified.
“When the kids couldn’t go to highschool throughout COVID-19, they offered laptops [among other] issues. So we’re extraordinarily grateful to them for what they’re doing for us, and the ladies… [it’s] effectively appreciated,” she provides.
