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Outpouring of support for the less fortunate

April 30, 2020
Joe Bogdanovich, chairman, Caribbean Love Now (left) and Marcus Richards, managing director of Hardware & Lumber (right) make the symbolic presentation of $1.5 million to Kivette Silvera, director, Food for the Poor. The charity reports an uptick in the number of people it serves following job losses across the country. Hardware & Lumber will also donate 1 per cent of its online sales for three months.
Joe Bogdanovich, chairman, Caribbean Love Now (left) and Marcus Richards, managing director of Hardware & Lumber (right) make the symbolic presentation of $1.5 million to Kivette Silvera, director, Food for the Poor. The charity reports an uptick in the number of people it serves following job losses across the country. Hardware & Lumber will also donate 1 per cent of its online sales for three months.

Community-based organisations across the island are playing their part in helping the elderly, needy, and vulnerable in society through partnerships with public- and private-sector entities.

"We are seeing an outpouring of love and support for the less fortunate among us during this period," Mandel McKulsky, public relations manager at the Social Development Commission, said.

He said that community groups, through their partnerships with community development committees (CDCs), have assisted stakeholders in the distribution of care packages to the elderly and less fortunate, and some have created and distributed care packages of their own during the coronavirus pandemic.

"Over the past month, the Race Course Police Youth Club in Manchester has been pooling resources and providing care packages for the elderly persons within the community. These packages include perishable and non-perishable food items as well as sanitation products," McKulsky said.

Personal funds

"Additionally, the Denham Farm Youth Club in Manchester has used their personal funds to purchase and deliver care packages to the elderly and cooked meals to the indigent. We've also seen groups from Mitchell Town, Clarendon, partner with Jamalco to contribute care packages to the needy, especially the seniors and the children," he added.

Similar activities have been carried out in other areas, with CDCs reporting that groups such as the St Ann-based Mount Pleasant Football Academy having distributed approximately 3,000 food care packages in the parish and the Clarks Town Development Area Committee in Trelawny providing care packages for the vulnerable from funds they had raised.

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