FIRST CARIBBEAN DONATES TO HUMANITARIAN CUASES THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN

January 24, 2007

First Caribbean Bank has been donating funds and manpower towards different humanitarian causes in all the territories in which it operates in the Caribbean. Belize has been a part of the programme called “Adopt a Cause” since 2005, as First Caribbean Bank’s Corporate Director’s Assistant in Belize Irene Hernandez shares.

Irene Hernandez: Corporate Director’s Assistant

“the amount donate per branch is two thousand Belize and the staff in the individual branches seek out different causes that we feel we would like to donate to people who are in need and maybe give a face lift to a building or donate needed items to a programme etc. it has been running since 2005 so we find that the branches throughout the country we have touched several communities several causes all around. We run probably five or six different projects throughout the year; most branches also do fund raising from staff effort to increase that amount and add on to it so that we are able to do a bigger project.”

Hernandez highlights some of the works that the bank has done already under the programme.

Irene Hernandez: Corporate Director’s Assistant

“We have done in San Pedro they have assisted the San Pedro High School with a computer lab and setting up of a network for the students there. We did a library in Ladyville which was recently opened; we also renovated a pre school in Sandhill painting inside and outside, repairing the roof trying to get rid of some rat bats etc. in Dangriga we did several smaller projects there and in Belmopan we assisted the San Martin Government School as well getting there bathroom repaired and face-lifting the school  so we have done quite a bit throughout the country.”

Irene Hernandez, First Caribbean Bank’s Corporate Director’s Assistant in Belize.

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