WITH 20,000 cloth masks sporting the Jamaican flag and the organisation's logo already sold, the Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme is looking for volunteers to help ramp up production.
We believe that with an increase of volunteers we will be able to achieve this,” said national coordinator of the Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, Colonel Martin Rickman.
Volunteers need to be over 18, in keeping with HOPE's mandate of being “a youth engagement initiative aimed especially at targeting unattached, at-risk participants 18 to 24 years old, who are not engaged in any meaningful way in Jamaica”.
All HOPE programme participants or interns have to be trained in the three core areas of citizenship, community service and personal development skills.
“What has happened is that corporate entities have supported this initiative by purchasing masks to help with the production and for it to be distributed for free.