From left: Jean Lowrie-Chin, chairman of Digicel Foundation; Floyd Green, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information; Peta Gay Waugh, programme specialist in education at USAID; and Henry Johnson look on as his son Shaheem uses his home-made clock to tell time. They were present at the launch of Digicel Foundation’s National Parent Place Initiative at the McAuley Primary School in Spanish Town, St Catherine. The Parents’ Place is where parents meet and discuss parenting issues as well as participate in workshops on literacy, numeracy and homework strategies.
