YET ANOTHER SOCIAL programme has been hit by a significant drop in funding, but the administrators have vowed to keep fighting to maintain the level of assistance.
The Barbados chapter of the Prison Fellowship Group, which assists families of inmates, said it has had to work with about half of its projected annual budget of $100 000.
As such, director Thomas Watts said financing is their major challenge at this time.
“Some people have written to us saying, ‘What we used to give you we cannot give anymore but we will give you [something] so you can carry on your programme because you all are doing good work’. They also say, ‘What you are doing we cannot do that’,” he said. (WILLCOMM)
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