Santa Cruz , St Elizabeth – The Jamaica National Building Society through its Santa Cruz branch and Junction MoneyShop branch recently donated $250,000 to the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS).

The money will go towards the school’s fundraising drive to provide a mobile computer laboratory which school leaders hope will be available for the start of the upcoming September term.

School leaders say students in the lower grades at STETHS — numbering about 1000 of a total population of 1780 students — have very little access to computers in their classroom hampering the school’s ability to “integrate technology in the curriculum”.

The mobile laboratory is seen as the best available option to resolve the problem.

As part of the fundraising drive, a 5K run/walk through the streets of Santa Cruz was held on May 30.

PIC: STETHS Presentation

Alethia Carpenter Peart (fourth right) Business Relationship & Sales Manager for the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) Santa Cruz Branch and Junction MoneyShop makes a symbolic handover of J$250,000 to Sandra Holness, STETHS Vice Principal, for the school’s mobile computer lab. The occasion was the inaugural staging of the STETHS 5K Run/Walk in Santa Cruz on May 31. Witnessing the presentation are Hilret Hanson (third right) executive, branch operations, and employees of the JNBS Santa Cruz Branch.