HHF expands scholarship to a third school

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HHF expands scholarship to a third school

WESTERN BUREAU: The Harriet Hall Foundation (HHF), a non-profit organisation out of Montego Bay, is expanding its scholarship programme to a third all-girls school, despite the challenges faced by the pandemic in the past year. The scholarship...

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