{"id":21132,"date":"2024-07-08T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21132"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:04:14","slug":"because-we-care-cash-grant-distribution-reaches-mocha-arcadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/because-we-care-cash-grant-distribution-reaches-mocha-arcadia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because We Care&#8221; Cash Grant Distribution Reaches Mocha\/Arcadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The &#8220;Because We Care&#8221; cash grant distribution continued this week, reaching parents and guardians of children attending Mocha\/Arcadia Nursery and Primary Schools, as well as the private nursery school Children Are Us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distribution event at Mocha\/Arcadia Primary School was overseen by Kwame McCoy, Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Public Affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the government&#8217;s commitment to enhancing the education system and preparing children for their futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipients expressed their appreciation for the financial assistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Bentick noted that the grant allowed her to purchase school clothes for her child, who recently completed the common entrance exams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brittany Henry highlighted that the grant would significantly assist parents if used wisely, and she urged others to support their children&#8217;s education beyond just financial contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distribution effort has also reached remote regions, including Regions 7 and 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative, set to wrap up this week, will see over 9.2 billion dollars disbursed to more than 205,000 public and private school children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cash grant benefits every child from nursery to Grade 10 and those entering Grades 12 and 13, aiming to support education and alleviate financial burdens on families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Because We Care&#8221; cash grant distribution continued this week, reaching parents and guardians of children attending Mocha\/Arcadia Nursery and Primary Schools, as well as the private nursery school Children&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21134,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21132\/revisions\/21134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}