The European Union today donated $23 million for the construction of three addition classrooms, a teachers facility and the erection of security fencing at the End Time Basic School in Waterhouse, Kingston.

The grant was made possible under the European Union’s Poverty Reduction Programme. The project will be monitored by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF).

During a ground-breaking ceremony this morning, Principal of the basic school Janet Hall-Hope, was full of gratitude.

“I am very grateful because the needs of the school, the building we occupy now, are so great,” said Hall-Hope.

She listed incomplete roofing and inadequate partitions for the classrooms in the single building the school now occupies.

“Because of that it tends to be very noisy; you can stay in one classroom and hear what’s going on in the next,” she said.

According to EU Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi Alemanni, the project is expected to take four months to complete.

“We have to start the process in our early childhood education system because this is where it begins,” Alemanni said.

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