Five months after the launch of the Operation Birthright project, close to one thousand Jamaicans have submitted applications to receive birth certificates.
The document will be issued free of cost as part of an initiative under the National Identification System, NIDS project.
Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for the Registrar General's Department, Floyd Green says a public education campaign will be launched next week to encourage more Jamaicans to sign up.
Mr Green was speaking Wednesday at the hand-over of birth certificates to thirty-six inmates at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre where he said a number of inmates are not officially registered.
He says a birth certificate can assist an inmate in becoming employable and suggested a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Correctional Services and Operation Birthright to help those in need.
Operation Birthright is being funded at a cost of 350 thousand US or 50 million Jamaican dollars.
The project is targeting 11 thousand Jamaicans and is being be executed by the RGD.
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