Jamaica Nationwide (JN) Cash Providers has launched a $500,000 scholarship programme geared toward supporting the youngsters of farm employees collaborating within the Seasonal Agricultural Staff Programme (SAWP) in Canada.
The JN Fields of Alternative Scholarships will award six scholarships in complete — two at every academic stage: $50,000 for major, $75,000 for secondary, and $125,000 for tertiary schooling. The programme was formally launched on Wednesday, July 9, on the JN Monetary Centre on Belmont Street in Kingston.
Addressing the launch, Minister of Labour and Social Safety, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., highlighted the long-standing partnership between JN and the Ministry’s Abroad Employment Programme.
In July 2024, the Ministry signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with JN Cash Providers Canada Restricted, a subsidiary of JN Cash Providers, to formalize their collaboration geared toward bettering the welfare of Jamaican farm employees in Canada by way of social assist initiatives.
“We applaud the efforts to increase past simply monetary into actually impacting the lives of our farm employees and their relations in a really substantive method,” the Minister mentioned.
He additional famous that farm employees typically miss vital household milestones resembling birthdays and graduations, emphasizing that “any assist we may give to those nation-builders which might be dedicating their life to uplifting their households is an effective funding.”
Minister Charles Jr. inspired potential scholarship recipients to stay targeted and dedicated to excellence.
“It’s actually an honour for us collectively to be declaring that the funding in these kids and in these college students is worthy, and I do know that the farm employees would need me to specific gratitude to JN for the partnership, for the imaginative and prescient and only for the dedication,” he added.
Common Supervisor of JN Cash Providers, Horace Hines, remarked that the establishment has at all times prided itself on supporting academic causes.
“What now we have right this moment is a sport changer. We do really feel that it’s going to assist to counterpoint the lives of not simply our present prospects however the subsequent technology, and we hope that we are able to plant a seed that can assist to develop generations to return,” he mentioned.
Mr. Hines additionally revealed plans to increase the scholarship programme to farm employees in america within the close to future.
Assistant Common Supervisor of JN Cash Providers, Sanya Wallace, outlined the applying course of and eligibility necessities.
Candidates have to be individuals within the SAWP for a minimum of three years, have been a JN Cash buyer for 2 of these years, and have accomplished a minimum of one transaction because the begin of the 2025 SAWP season.
Moreover, college students should keep a mean grade of B or greater and never be current recipients of any JN Cash or JN scholarships.
Purposes might be submitted at any JN workplace in Canada or through cellular items.
“They’re easy utility kinds – their title, the title of the scholar, their stage and only a quick purpose why they need the scholarship and why we must always select them,” Ms. Wallace defined.
Scholarships shall be awarded previous to the beginning of the September 2025 college 12 months.
