BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, April 02, 2015
FOOD For the Poor (FFP) has completed construction of a house for street sweeper Peaches Henry whose plight was highlighted in the Jamaica Observer on March 1.
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| Peaches Henry (second left) with members of the Jamaica Observer marketing team (from left) Pamille Shaw-Blair, Kamilah Morrison, and Andrea Beckford. The Observer team was on hand to help with construction of Henry’s house. |
"I am very grateful for the help that Food for the Poor and the Jamaica Observer have provided. If it was not for these organisations and the help of concerned citizens, I don't know what I would do," said the 38-year-old single mother.
She made the comment as a team from FFP spent a day constructing the two-bedroom for her and her children.
Three of the street sweeper's five children, who were on hand to witness the construction, celebrated and cheered as FFP employers carried out their work.
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| Peaches Henry and three of her five children pose outside their unfinished house in Waltham Park, St Andrew. The house was a donation from charity organisation Food for the Poor. (PHOTOS: GARFIELD ROBINSON) |
Several of Jamaican's top entertainers, including Assassin and members of No Madzz group were also on hand to help. Members from the Observer's marketing team also provided assistance.
"We want to thank the Observer; they were the ones who featured the story about Peaches and, because of that, we got the funding to build the home," said Marsha Burrell, marketing manager at FFP.
According to Burrell the house was built under the FFP's '5K Run' initiative, which is scheduled for May 9.
"Our aim is to build 300 homes under our FFP 5K run, and the house constructed for Peaches was one from that list," Burrell emphasised. more
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