Project 1000 Boosts Manchester....computers provided to schools through Digicel Foundation's for Project 1000 initiative. ."We remain committed to ensuring the further growth and development of students across JAMAICA.

Twelve schools in northern Manchester are set to benefit from computers provided through Digicel Foundation's Project 1000 initiative. Each school received five computers on February 28, at the Greenvale Computer Lab in Manchester.

Jo Anderson-Figueroa, marketing
and communications assistant,
Digicel Foundation, has fun with eager
students who are trying out a game
 on one of the newly handed
over computers. - Contributed PHOTOS

Project 1000 is in keeping with the foundation's aim to meet the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal of achieving 100 per cent literacy by 2015.

The schools included in this initiative are: Medina All-Age, Comfort Hall All-Age, Coley Mountain All-Age, Somerset All-Age, Fairfield Primary, Huntley All-Age, Nazareth All-Age, Bethany Primary, Harry Watch All-Age, Hatfield Primary and Junior High, Auchtembeddie Primary, and Mayfield Basic School.

Samantha Chantrelle, CEO of the Digicel Foundation, emphasised the foundation's commitment to improving literacy rates across the island, saying, "We remain committed to ensuring the further growth and development of students across Jamaica. Since the launch of Project 1000, nearly 3,000 students have benefited from this programme. more