THREE hundred and eighty households in New Providence and North Andros have enrolled for the RISE Bahamas Conditional Cash Transfer Programme since the scheme’s official launch in March, the Ministry of Social Services and Community Development has announced.
The RISE (Renewing, Inspiring, Sustaining, Empowering) programme was introduced by Minister Melanie Griffin in June, 2015, with the aim of improving people’s health and education while reducing their levels of poverty. The conditional cash transfer programme affords beneficiaries a cash grant which will give them the flexibility to best manage household funds.
Enrolment events continue in New Providence for clients of the Robinson Road Centre and in Grand Bahama for those at the Eight Mile Rock Centre.
Beneficiaries of RISE have to undergo training and meet compliance conditions.
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