Sunday, June 29, 2014
REGGAE artiste Richie Spice has collaborated with Food for the Poor to refurbish Galilee Early Childhood Education Centre located in the Maxfield Park community in St Andrew.
Spice, whose real name is Richell Bonner, has already helped with a refrigerator.
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| Richie Spice (right) greets Food for the Poor Chairman Andrew Mahfood. (PHOTO: COLLIN REID) |
"I think with collaboration much more positive interventions will be made for the school," he said at Food for the Poor's 30th anniversary media and celebrity appreciation luncheon at Tracks & Records on June 18.
"The school approached me some time ago and stated their needs. I helped with what I could, and I will continue to help the school and others as best as I can."
He said an assessment will be done to find the cost of providing help for the school, which needs, among other things, classrooms renovated, appliances, and desks and chairs.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Food for the Poor Jamaica, Andrew Mahfood, said he is elated at the partnership.
"It is our mission to link churches, civic and other charity organisations already operating in areas of need in a manner that helps both the materially poor and the poor in spirit. There is certainly room for many more persons who wish to share our vision," Mahfood said.
And Principal Ferron Morgan-Howell is also looking forward to the future.
"I am excited about the partnership. We have many needs and I am happy to know that Richie Spice and Food for the Poor have both committed to assisting us in every possible way they can," she said.
For its 30th anniversary, Food for the Poor launched a school furniture campaign with the aim of distributing at least 15,000 desks and chairs to schools in need before the end of the current academic year. Galilee Early Childhood Education Centre will be one of the beneficiaries. FFP has also surpassed its target of building or upgrading 50 basic schools under the Jamaica 50 programme launched in 2012. more
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