The Blossom Gardens Child Care Facility (BGCCF) and the Montego Bay Animal Haven have received donations of $200,000 each from telecommunications giant, Digicel.
BGCCF is operated by the Child Development Agency (CDA) in Appleton Hall, Montego Bay, and has been in existence since 1975, to cater to children, ages 0-7 years, who are the responsibility of the State for various reasons, while the Montego Bay Animal Haven is a shelter for over 200 animals which started in a private home 11 years ago.
They were chosen, respectively, by Manika Mitchell, from Hopewell in Hanover, and Codie Kameka, a final year student at The University of the West Indies (UWI), who hails from the historical German settlement of Seaford Town in Westmoreland, the two weekly grand prize winners for the newly-revived Digicel 'Shake to Win' competition, which recently added the $200,000 grant to a charity of the winner's choice to the popular competition.
Montego Bay Animal Haven was founded in 2009 to raise awareness of the plight of stray and abandoned animals and to try to tackle the problem in north-west Jamaica.
Digicel's prepaid and postpaid customers can download the MyDigicel app and get a chance to win the weekly grand prize of $1 million.
