Jamaica Broilers partners with Word Alive for community health and wellness
THE PARISH of St Catherine is gearing up to host the Jamaica Health & Wellness Festival in August of this year. In partnership with the Jamaica Broilers Group, the event will be open for five days, commencing on August 27 at the Word and Faith International Fellowship Church in Spanish Town.
The company has marked the event as a significant part of its 60th nniversary celebration and will be serving the community with the Word Alive team through a number of initiatives over the course of the week. These include gifts of school supplies and gift vouchers to students, opportunity to participate in HiPro’s Subsistence to Success programme, and practical care packages filled with basic food items.
For over a decade, Bishop Jacqueline McCullough, Jamaicanborn pastor and founder of The International Gathering at Beth Rapha, and president of Precious JEM Ministries, Inc, (a non-profit evangelistic organisation in New York, United States) has organised the provision of medical aid to various communities across the island with the assistance of both local and overseas volunteers.
She established this medical mission through the Word Alive outreach ministry, and has served over 30,000 people in Jamaica and approximately 2,000 people in Liberia between 1997 and 2010.
The initiative was designed to meet the needs of the local community with a ‘Pop-Up’ Medical Clinic, offering services in the areas of dentistry, gynaecology, podiatry, and ophthalmology.
Additionally, the festival will highlight wellness through the efforts of physical hygienists, general family practitioners, nutritionists, counsellors and other practitioners, who will address sustainable wellness through fitness, healthy eating, emotional and mental stability and other healthy lifestyle choices.
‘The company has marked the event as a significant part of its 60th anniversary celebration .. .‘