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A masked team from the Supreme Ventures Foundation (SVF), while maintaining physical distancing, presented gifts to the house mothers in children’s home in the Corporate Area. It was a four-day activation that saw almost 80 house mothers receiving gifts for Mother’s Day. Supreme Ventures vice-president of marketing, communications and sponsorships, Gail Abrahams, says the foundation wanted to show appreciation to the hard-working caregivers who are looking after the children in state care.



The SVF team started their Mother’s Day surprises at Glenhope Nursery and Children’s Home on Maxfield Avenue, where they handed over packages with organic locally made products from Morgan’s Creek Limited. Packages were also dropped off at Homestead Place of Safety, which also houses wards from the Jamaica National Children’s Home, Reddie’s Place of Safety, and Strathmore Garden’s Children’s Home.
Source: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/social/20200520/something-extra-wednesday

SUPREME Ventures Foundation (SVF) — the outreach arm of gaming company Supreme Ventures Limited — took its annual Read Across Jamaica activities to social media this year as the country and the world continue to grapple with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Last year, Supreme Ventures executives visited Greenwich Primary School on Spanish Town Road in Kingston and read to students from grades one to six, making a significant contribution to the school’s literacy programme.
This year, with schools closed and access to State-run childcare facilities restricted, SVF took its literacy promotion efforts to its revamped Instagram page and its Facebook page.
Media personalities and social media influencers Terri-Karelle Reid and Emprezz Golding joined the SVF Instragram event live from their homes.
Gail Abrahams, vice-president, marketing, communication and sponsorship, led the activity from the SVL boardroom in New Kingston. She read Chase is on the Case, a Paw Patrol storybook, to the thousands of viewers who joined from their smart devices.
According to Abrahams, it was important for SVF to make an effort activating activities within its outreach calendar even in light of the pandemic and strict rules implemented to stymie its spread.
“The foundation usually has a packed calendar that mainly impacts and benefits children in State care or who live in under challenging circumstances; as such, we thought it very important to find a way to connect with them,” said Abrahams.
“Usually we would be sitting in a circle reading and spending time together, but we take social distancing very seriously so we found a way to keep our activities going with the use of technology,” added Abrahams.
SVF also donated two large appliances to Maxfield Park Children’s Home — an industrial freezer and a dryer for its laundry room. The children’s home, which has a child population of over 100, reached out for help when its appliances ceased functioning in April.
The foundation has a long history of outreach with the Corporate Area-based children’s home and installed a $3-million fire alarm system on the compound in February.
 
Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/supreme-ventures-takes-read-across-jamaica-day-to-social-media_193925

Supreme Ventures has partnered with Sagicor to provide health insurance for its 1,000 strong retailer network amid the local spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Under the partnership, registered SVL retailers will be able to access health insurance at a reduced cost for themselves, their families and their employees.
CEO of Prime Sports Jamaica Limited, the subsidiary with responsibility for the SVL retail network, Xesus Johnston says the initiative was in train but negotiations were fast-tracked in light of the local spread of COVID-19.
“We had commenced negotiations regarding the execution of the plan earlier this year, but once it was announced that coronavirus had made landfall in the island, we decided to speed up those talks so that our retailers could be covered under the plan as soon as possible,” he said.
With this new health coverage plan, retailers will be asked to pay a minimal fee to cover their family and employees. The fee will be deducted from their monthly settlements to SVL and sent to Sagicor on their behalf.
Johnston says the programme will lessen the cost of health insurance for retailers, and allow them to receive more coverage for themselves and their team.
“These are challenging times, Jamaica is in the middle of a health crisis and it is having a profound negative effect on revenues for all businesses, our retailers included. We wanted to have this plan implemented immediately so it would remove some of that burden and allow them to adequately cover themselves and their employees,” he said.
Willard Brown, Executive Vice President, Sagicor Life Jamaica, congratulated SVL for its progressive step towards providing for the healthcare needs of one of its key stakeholder groups, particularly during the current crisis.
He noted that this partnership represents a consistent focus by Sagicor Life to expand its health coverage to traditionally underserved sections of the Jamaican population.
“We are happy to deepen our partnership with Supreme Ventures Limited and recognize this move as a meaningful step in the overall health and wellbeing of our society. At Sagicor, we are committed to playing our role to be part of a national solution for the delivery of health services by assisting people to obtain the necessary financing,” Brown said.
Supreme Ventures operates its lottery and sports betting brands chiefly through its network of 1,000 active retailers islandwide.
Most retailers operate other small businesses alongside their SVL terminals, and some have been forced to close their doors after the Government of Jamaica ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and explicitly, places of entertainment in an effort to stem the local spread of the virus.
 
Source: https://www.loopjamaica.com/content/svl-partners-sagicor-offer-health-coverage-retailers