TORONTO, Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Over the final 16 years a gaggle of associates of Jamaica and Jamaican volunteers have thrown fabulous galas and fantastic walkathons to assist enhance early childhood schooling in Jamaica.
This passionate group, led by their visionary founder Karl Hale, has raised hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to construct 25 Kindergartens throughout Jamaica, rising entry to and the standard of the schooling of 1000’s of three to six year-olds over the past decade.
Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) has executed this work by way of an extended and impactful partnership with Food For The Poor Canada and Food For The Poor Jamaica.
Hundreds of volunteers have had the chance to work alongside Food For The Poor (FFP) employees and contractors to hammer and paint in addition to spend time with the lecturers, mother and father and youngsters of the group.
Their most up-to-date college, the 25th college, was constructed this August within the parish of St. Catherine, Jamaica–giving the group of Linstead a fantastic new college that can enable extra youngsters to be higher educated. 30 volunteers loved the unimaginable expertise of giving again by constructing a faculty over a interval of 4 days!
Samantha Mahfood, Executive Director of FFP Canada, shared, “The impact on one child or one community is important, but the impact that HHJF has made on 25 communities and thousands of children is a sea-change for the island of Jamaica.” She continued, “The board and staff of Food For The Poor Canada thank Helping Hands Jamaica for all their work. We look forward to our continued partnership and building more schools each year.”
Samantha Mahfood and Andrea Slipek from FFP Canada look ahead to attending the sixteenth Annual Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation Gala.
On Friday, October 21, 2022, the Palais Royale Ballroom will likely be immersed within the music, vibrancy, meals and tradition the island of Jamaica provides.
Every sponsorship, desk, ticket buy, donation of funds, time and in-kind gadgets assist to advance their imaginative and prescient based mostly on three easy phrases – PARTICIPATE, EDUCATE, ELEVATE!
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About Food For The Poor Canada
Food For The Poor Canada (FFPC) empowers communities in Latin America and the Caribbean by way of 5 areas of funding: meals, well being, housing, schooling, and income-generating initiatives.
FFPC meets pressing wants whereas constructing group and social infrastructure. FFPC makes use of the pre-existing networks of native affiliated organizations to offer efficient and accountable distribution and mission administration and to maintain and develop the communities they serve. Through trusted companions, FFPC has strengthened its emergency preparedness and is ready to answer emergencies with influence and immediacy.
Over the final 14 years, FFPC and its donors have constructed 188 houses, 37 faculties, offered 25 million meals in addition to shipped and distributed $43,000,000 in meals, instructional and medical provides to communities in LAC.
For interviews or extra info, contact:
Samantha Mahfood
Executive Director
(416) 921-4008
[email protected]
www.foodforthepoor.ca
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