A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet aims to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition criteria for food served and sold in public settings.
Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Dr Ronald Blake, conversing with students from the St Ann-based Ocho Rios High School at the 2016 staging of the National Achievement Expo, held at the Denbigh Showground in May Pen, Clarendon.
The Jamaica 4-H Clubs will be introducing new initiatives and programmes in 2021 to engage more young Jamaicans in the business of agriculture.
Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Ronald Blake, told JIS News
that the first quarter of the new year, between January and March, will be spent training 500 youth farmers and providing them with agricultural inputs.
In addition, persons will be assisted to access government-owned lands to start farming ventures.
Food for the Poor’s Chevanese Rowe Lyn-Sue, Manager of Health and Child Care, and Marsha Burrell-Rose, Development and Marketing Manager, shared a moment with Kevin Downswell, Gospel Artiste and Add Hope Ambassador, and Andrei Roper, Brand Manager at Restaurants of Jamaica, as they received donations of care packages at the Hanbury Children’s Home in Manchester.
Quick-service food operator Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ) through their KFC Add Hope outreach programme, recently donated 1,300 KFC meals towards Food For The Poor’s Angels of Hope programme – meals that will go to the wards and caregivers at 26 children’s homes across the island.