TEN NGOs now have an extra $100,000 in project funding over the next 12-16 months for initiatives in community development, digitisation and environmental stability, courtesy the Digicel Foundation’s Extraordinary Projects Impacting Communities grant programme.

Sponsored by Shell, the programme’s ninth iteration will aid the development of homework centres, healthcare and digital systems across the country.

The Holistic Autism Intervention programme, created by the Southern Muslim Institute for Learning and Enrichment, was one of the awarded projects. It aims to provide speech, behaviour and art therapy for autistic children with developmental delays.