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JSIF-REDI ll ready to roll

Following a successful launch and stakeholders’ sensitisation public forum of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s-Rural Economic Development Initiative 11 (JSIF-REDI ll) project, key partners have now joined forces to endorse the initiative as...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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