West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Hedge Funds Care announced  today that they have selected the 2007 Hedge Funds Care grant recipients. After an intensive selection process, Hedge Funds Care has distributed $145,054 to support local projects designed to treat and prevent child abuse and neglect in the Cayman Islands.

The grantees are the Nadine Andreas Foster Home, the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre, St Ignatius for an abuse identification training program and the Department of Children and Family Services.

Committee co-chair Peter Cockhill said, “There is a careful screening process where the committee conducts site visits and requests that the potential grantees present the details of their proposals.”

Once the proposals were received from the various agencies, the Hedge Funds Care team assist the agencies with making sure that their projects are on target with the Hedge Funds Care mission to treat and eradicate child abuse and neglect.

“This was a fascinating exercise for me and all of my colleagues on the committee,” said co-chair Colleen Montain, “We were able to see first hand a side of Cayman’s social network that some of us had not previously been exposed to. The issue of abuse, especially when it comes to children is horrifying, but seeing the treatment centres and the places of refuge that are all at capacity, really brought home the message that there is a need as great in Cayman as anywhere else in the world for caring people to be involved, and funds to make their efforts materialise.”

“Hedge Funds Care (Cayman) is extremely proud of its success in being able to raise the amount of money that we did last year and we are very keen to see this money begin to make a dramatic difference in the lives of Cayman’s affected children. We feel that we have a responsibility to the donors as well as to the children to ensure that the money is spent in the areas in which it will have the most long-term impact,” said Ms Montain.

HFCC is funding activities that strengthen vulnerable families, build community resources for at risk families, preserve the integrity of the family without jeopardising child safety, enhance permanency planning, improve foster care and adoption, and provide clinical treatment to victims as well as support to non-offending family members.

Alex Akesson

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