Butterfield gives generously to support hospice
(CNS): Jasmine Palliative and Hospice Care has announced that its patient room #1 will be named for Butterfield in recognition of the bank’s significant donation, to be made over the next three years, to support the non-profit organisation, which is dedicated to enhancing and improving the lives of people with life-limiting illnesses. This is the first patient room to be sponsored in the newly built Jasmine Villa.
While the bank is no stranger to supporting worthy causes through its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Butterfield said that this is one of the larger gifts it has made in recent years.
Explaining their support for the hospice, Managing Director Mike McWatt said, “Butterfield has been a strong supporter of Jasmine since its inception some 23 years ago, and this latest initiative as Jasmine’s first patient room sponsor demonstrates its commitment to the Cayman community at large and to the ongoing hospice and palliative care services in these islands.”
He added, “The dedicated service that Jasmine’s nurses, carers, medical professionals and volunteers provide in our community and at Jasmine’s Villa must continue for generations to come. Butterfield’s management and staff are delighted to support Jasmine in this worthy endeavour.”
Jasmine usually serves around 75 to 85 families over the course of a year, requiring varying levels of personalised care. However, there has been an increase in demand since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Explaining why this donation is so important, Jasmine’s Marketing and Fundraising Manager, Ansley Easter, said, “This partnership with Butterfield will allow us to grow as an organisation and meet the growing need in the community. Jasmine is Cayman’s only palliative and hospice care provider, so this gift is really to the benefit of the entire community, not just Jasmine.”
Jasmine provides respite service, palliative care, hospice care, and bereavement programmes to anyone living in the Cayman Islands free of charge.
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Did I miss the amount of the donation? How much was actually donated?
Maybe it is time to allow euthanasia.
Unfortunately a few religious fanatics are forcing people to suffer.
One private sector entity that has my respect. If only others would follow.
Amazing work by Ansley. Since she join Jasmine earlier this year, their profile and income has gone through the roof.
I would prefer them to cut their fees so I can choose what charities to give my money to.
Thank you Butterfield Bank! Jasmine is such an invaluable resource to our community.
Jasmine is a great org. Big up Jasmine & Butterfield!
Every business with a T&BL in the Cayman Islands should be voluntarily committing a minimum of 2% allocation of net profits to local CSR and philanthropy as part of normal corporate good practice. What is remarkable is how little most local operators give back, if at all. But, throw a big gala and there’s a waitlist for $10,000 corporate tables…the priorities are really backwards. Kudos to Butterfield.
Very telling that half the crowd thinks 2% on net corporate profit, an international ESG norm, is too rich an ambition for millionaires to apply to local Cayman Islands CSR. No wonder the public relies on CIG to pick up the pieces on social gaps.
CIG does not ‘pick up the pieces’ for hospice care. Their funding of this necessary social care is minimal.
More generally the CIG books hundreds of millions annually towards picking up the corporate social responsibility costs ignored by domestic churches and financial raiders. They ought to be bearing a larger proportion of the total social and community costs in the jurisdiction in which they operate, profit, and live.
For every $1mln booked in profit, a minimum of $20k should return via social investments and philanthropy, according to international ESG best practise.
If the official World Bank’s USD$6Bln in GDP (2019) figure is accurate, then there ought to be USD$120mln a year funnelling into social philanthropy programs…where are those headlines? Why aren’t we honestly proposing the question of where that reinvestment went?