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Gordon Larsen (second left), building project manager, Jamaica Missions of the USA, makes a point as Nicole Marshall-Walker (third left), group public relations manager, Jamaica Broilers Group; Lady Allen (second right), and Randy Finnikin (right), executive director of the Spring Village Development Foundation, look on, while Becky Larsen (left), also of Jamaica Missions of the USA, listens. They were on a tour of the new Spring Village I Believe Medical Clinic, in Spring Village, St Catherine, which was officially opened by Lady Allen recently. - Contributed
The official opening of the $15-million I Believe Medical Clinic and Healthy Lifestyle Centre, in Spring Village, St Catherine, took place recently.
Lady Allen, wife of Governor General Sir Patrick Allen, cut the symbolic ribbon and officially declared the facility open to residents of the community and surrounding areas.
The clinic was facilitated by the Spring Village Develo-pment Foundation, with support from the Jamaica Broilers Group and Jamaica Missions of Minnesota, USA - the latter of which provided a team of missionaries with expertise in various areas of the construction industry.
The visiting group worked for over three months to convert three 40-foot containers into a facility that now includes three examination rooms, a dental room, medical personnel offices, drug storeroom, a laboratory, a waiting room, and a ramp for wheelchair access.
Last year, Spring Village was designated as a national 'model for community development' by the I Believe Initiative.
In her address at the event, Lady Allen announced that the Foundation had been selected as one of three community organisations across the island to receive computers through the Governor General's Initiative.
Lady Allen noted that 10 computers, which had been donated by the Embassy of the Republic of China, would be distributed to the three specially selected community-based organisations in Petersfield, Westmoreland; Albert Town, Trelawny and Spring Village, St Catherine.
In responding to this announcement after the ceremony, Randy Finnikin, executive director of the Spring Village Development Foundation, said the computers would help to upgrade the technology currently available at the Foundation's homework centre.
