Women’s Centre plans charity ball for adolescent mothers

Plans are progressing for a charity ball to raise funds to assist adolescent mothers to be reintegrated into the school system.

The event, scheduled to take place on May 18 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, is being organised by the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport.

Novelette Howell, executive director of the WCJF, told the JIS that adolescent mothers pursuing tertiary and vocational training will benefit from the event.

Howell said tickets for the ball should be available by the end of February, and that persons will be able to purchase them online and at various locations.

"We are hoping that we will have about 200 to 300 persons in attendance," she said, adding that each ticket will cost $30,000.

The WCJF was established in 1978 in response to a high level of teenage pregnancies at the time.