Add Hope plans ahead for phase two of school-feeding programme
RESTAURANTS OF Jamaica Limited (ROJ), owners and operators of KFC in Jamaica, alongside the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI), have begun plans to commence phase two of their Add Hope initiative.
This comes on the heels of ROJ’s $4.5-million donation through the programme, which will see Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) distributing just over 82,000 meals to basic- and primary-level students.
“A major component of our mission is to secure partners who are aligned with our vision to embark on a long-term strategy to support and develop our youth,” said Floyd Green, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information. “This is a team effort, and Restaurants of Jamaica has shown tremendous potential to truly help subsidise our efforts.”
Green emphasised the need to provide meals for children most in need in order to ensure that these students are all successful in school. He also shared his anticipation of phase two of the Add Hope initiative, which will engage Jamaica at large to make donations to the ministry’s school-feeding programme when purchasing select meals at all KFC Jamaica locations.
...We want to play our part – NPL
Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) is responsible for the creation, procurement and distribution of all meals under the education ministry’s School Feeding Unit. Chairman of the board of NPL, Ewart Gilzean, announced the company’s intention to dedicate the month of June to Add Hope.
Expressing his gratitude on behalf of the board of directors of NPL, Gilzean commended ROJ for their commitment to feeding students most in need through their Add Hope programme. He also took the opportunity to share NPL’s plans to ensure that phase two of Add Hope is successful.
“We want to play our part in ensuring that all beneficiaries and the communities around them are all aware that KFC is playing their part to give back in a big way,” said Gilzean.
“This will ensure that ROJ’s point-of-sale initiative come September will be highly supported so that we can continue to provide more and more meals to students in Jamaica.”