‘Because We Care’ cash grants for over 97% of public school students in Region Two were uplifted during a three-day rollout of the programme in the region that started on Wednesday and concluded on Friday.
A total of 11,795 students are on the registers of all schools in the region, which translates to a total allocation of $224,105,000 in cash grants for the region with each student eligible to receive the stipulated sum of $19,000.
According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), grants were uplifted for 11,433 of the students, which accounts for the disbursement of $217,227,000 to students and their families over three days. Three hundred and sixty-two grants had to be returned due to parents or guardians not being able to uplift.