{"id":313617,"date":"2023-12-12T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=313617"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:54:53","slug":"eleven-charitable-organizations-receives-cash-donations-from-dss-amounting-to-25000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/governance\/eleven-charitable-organizations-receives-cash-donations-from-dss-amounting-to-25000\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven charitable organizations receive cash donations from DSS amounting to $25,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Janice Jean-Jacques Thomas delivering remarks at ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A total of eleven (11) charitable organizations across the island have benefited from the Dominica Social Security (DSS) annual Christmas cash donation amounting to $25,000. This was according to Director of the DSS, Janice Jean Jacques-Thomas who was delivering remarks during the presentation ceremony held at the DSS Board Room in Roseau on Monday.<\/p>\n

The organizations include CALLS in Portsmouth, a centre where adolescents learn to love and serve, CHANCES, the Dominica Association of Persons with Disabilities (DAPD), the Dominica Infirmary, the Education Trust Fund, Grotto Home for the Homeless, House of Hope, Mahaut Senior Citizens Home, Northern District Home for the Aged, St Jerome\u2019s Ministry and The Social Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday donations amount from $1000 to $5000, totaling $25,000\u2026,\u201d Jean-Jacques Thomas revealed. \u201cIn addition to the amounts being distributed here today, DSS has also supported the President\u2019s Charity Foundation as well as various educational institutions to enable them to recognize their deserving students.\u201d<\/p>\n

And despite the economic challenges with which the world has been grappling in recent times, she said the DSS is delighted to continue today what can now be regarded as an institutional tradition, the presentation of donations during the season of goodwill, a time for caring and sharing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, within the last several years the Dominica Social Security has been known to make such contributions to facilitate the work of a number of charitable organizations in keeping with the Board\u2019s policy of allocating a percentage of its annual administrative budget for the purpose of supporting the activities of certain organizations through donations,\u201d She stated. \u201cAs a matter of fact, the institution continues to efficiently fulfil its mandate while keeping administrative expenses at less than half of its legislative limit…thereby making it possible to grant such donations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, Jean-Jacques Thomas said the DSS is already having a significant impact on the socio-economic well-being of the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven so, we are mindful of the fact that as a good corporate citizen it behooves us to possess a social conscience which finds expression in the degree of attention that we give to the needs of the less fortunate and underprivileged in our midst,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

Jean-Jacques Thomas trusts that the organizations will continue to have the means to adequately fulfil the respective roles that have either been entrusted to them or to pursue the causes to which they may have committed themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me exhort all of you to persevere in your various fields of endeavour and to never get weary in doing what is good, just, right and true,\u201d he encouraged. \u201cRemember that we have a moral responsibility to do unto others that which we would like to have done unto us and further, that the good Lord counts as done to him, whatever we do to and for one another\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Thomas called on employers who fail to meet their obligations to the DSS on behalf of their employees to pay their contributions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be neglectful of me if I didn\u2019t seize this opportunity to salute all our stakeholders who continue to collaborate with us in effective fulfilment of our most noble mandate, while at the same time calling again on those employers who continue to fail in meeting their obligations to the social security on behalf of their employees,\u201d she remarked. \u201cAnd also, to the self-employed persons who fail to pay their contributions to social security on their own account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jean-Jacques Thomas added, \u201cI urge all of you to commit yourselves to doing…this coming New Year…to ensure your employees’ and for the self-employed persons your future financial well-being is secured.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Some Members of DSS with representatives from charitable organizations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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