The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) raised over $400,000

to help students get devices needed for online learning.

The

JSE handed over the funds to Education minister , Fayval Williams, on Friday

(December 3).

“The

JSE through its social arm, the JSSE, has risen to the challenge to assist in

this initiative, which will significantly contribute to improving the learning

and development of our children, the future of

our country. We are assisting the Ministry of Education in its drive and they

can be assured of our 100% commitment to the process,” said Marlene Street

Forrest, the JSE’s Managing Director

“We

join with the ministry to encourage Jamaicans, local and in the diaspora, to

continue to contribute to nation-building through education, by

sending in their donations to this noble initiative by using the JSSE’s payment

portal,” she added.

In

October 2020 the ministry launched the ‘Connect a Child Ja Initiative’ which

encouraged corporate partners to provide laptops or tablets to 100,000 students

deemed in need.

The

money raised by the JSE will go toward the initiative.