Children's Outreach Group Honours Four

Published: Friday | December 17, 2010

The Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) has honoured four partner organisations which have supported its philanthropic activities over the past 16 years.

The awardees, special guests at the COJO annual awards dinner in New York on December 4, were The Daily News; Cathleen Decker, VP Lou Hammond & Associates, which represents a major Jamaican hotel chain; Sharon Locke, founder of the New York-based Practical Solutions, an accounting firm and, Ruder Finn, the public-relations agency of record for the Jamaica Tourist Board.

The support of these companies, according to COJO founder/chairman, Gary Williams, has helped the volunteer-driven organisation to assist a number of institutions in Jamaica and the United States, including the Alpha Boys' Home; Glenhope Place of Safety; Marigold Child Care Centre; Musgrave Girls' Home; City of Refuge and Summerfield Boys' Home in Jamaica and in New York, the Jamaica Queens YMCA and Leaf of Life.

Williams also thanked a number of other corporate entities, including JetBlue which donated airline tickets as raffle prizes and The Jamaica Pegasus hotel and other Jamaican properties which provided prizes of hotel accommodation.

Jamaican radio talk-show host, Barbara Gloudon, guest speaker at the event, praised COJO and its partners for "the sterling work they do on behalf of Jamaica's children".

She said that "all deserved commendation for sharing their money and their time with the less privileged" and urged those in the US to visit with the children from the beneficiary homes when next they are in Jamaica.

 

 

 

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