Hope from yaad: Relay For Life goes virtual for 2021

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Hope from yaad: Relay For Life goes virtual for 2021

The Jamaica Cancer Society’s (JCS) premier fundraising and awareness event – Relay For Life – is going virtual this year under the theme: ‘Hope From Yaad’. With the staging of Relay For Life not possible in its traditional format because of the...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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