Photos of Food For The Poor Jamaica at Garden Wood Basic School

Sharon Thomas (3^rd left), Principal, Garden Wood Basic School and Pastor Victor Peña (4^th right), Donor Representative, Destiny City Fellowship Church of United States of America cut the ribbon, signalling theofficial opening of the Garden Wood Basic School on Wednesday, June 12. Cheering on the ribbon cutters are:  students of the basic school (centre) Jacqueline Johnson (3^rd right), Executive Director, Food For The Poor Jamaica (FFPJ); (from left)  Marcia Walker, Social Outreach Manager, FFPJ, PastorsDexter Dennis and Lansley Blake, school board representatives; and Claudette Grant, Secretary to the President of the Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. The school was constructed under the FFP Jamaica 50 Programme which aims to build 50 and or upgrade 50 basic schools in 50 months, in celebration of Jamaica’s 50^th anniversary of independence. Garden Wood Basic is the first school to be built in Clarendon under the FFP Jamaica 50 Programme.

Pastor Dexter Dennis (left), school board representative, Garden Wood Basic School expresses gratitude to Food For The Poor and Destiny City Fellowship Church of the United States for building the new school. He is conveying his sentiments to Jacqueline Johnson (right), Executive Director, Food For The Poor Jamaica (FFPJ) and Pastor Victor Peña, Donor Representative , Destiny City Fellowship Church of United States of America. Garden Wood Basic is the first school to be built in Clarendon under the FFP Jamaica 50 Programme, which aims to build 50 and or upgrade 50 basic schools in 50 months, in celebration of Jamaica’s 50^th anniversary of independence.