FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kingston, Jamaica – May 21, 2015: Providing a new home for their five children was one goal Kemeisha Sinclair and her common-law husband, Brandon Grant of Over River, St James, believed was impossible to achieve within the next decade of their lives.
Sinclair is a caring mother who does odd jobs for others while Grant works on construction sites to put food on the table for the family. However, the income earned for them to build a new house for their children, aged 12, 11, eight, four and nine months was insufficient.
However, thanks to the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation and Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica, this goal which they had lost faith in, has been achieved.
“One of the main problems we had before, was that our previous house’s roof used to leak badly. We had to set buckets and all of us had to stay on one bed to ensure that we don’t get wet when the rain came,” 25-year-old Sinclair said in an interview recently.
“Another problem was that we had termites eating out the board in the roof, so we used to hang sheets from the roof to prevent the rubbles from falling on us,” Sinclair further stated.
After bearing the burden for years, Grant got tired of the situation, and one day, upon hearing that FFP was constructing a house nearby, he went to the supervisor there, and inquired as to how to apply. Then he filed his application.
After being reviewed, the family was selected for a house.
“I feel good to have been selected. The house is very nice and I appreciate everything Food For The Poor and NCB Foundation has done for me,” Grant said.
Sinclair added, “He did it especially for the children, to make them more comfortable and be in a better place to grow up and be proud of. I feel really happy about the new house because we really needed it. It will certainly be better for us. Thanks to Food For The Poor and the NCB people for the help. May God bless you all.”
According to Jacinth Morgan-Collie, Programmes Administrator, NCB Foundation, her organisation is pleased to know that they could have made a difference in this family’s life.
“This is our way of leading the charge in corporate social responsibility and demonstrating to other organizations that we can do so much more to develop Jamaica one family and one community at a time. The Foundation is proud to have partnered with Food For The Poor in ‘Changing Lives and Restoring Families’,” Morgan-Collie said.
Adding to her comment, David Mair, Executive Director, FFP Jamaica, said more needy Jamaicans such as this family, who are in need of homes, will benefit from the $46.5 million raised from FFP’s recent 5K Run/Walk.
“Food For The Poor wants to assist as many needy Jamaicans as we possibly can. In upcoming months, more desperate Jamaicans in need of houses will receive houses from the funds we have raised. We are also grateful to NCB Foundation for providing funds to construct this house, and other donors who contributed to the funds now available that was raised from our 5K Run/Walk,” Mair said.
-end-
For more information, please contact:
Ainsworth Morris, PROComm. Tel: 926-6740 or 375-6136
Petri-Ann Henry, Public Relations Officer, Food For The Poor Jamaica. Cell: 564-2886
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150524/new-house-family-seven
No comments:
Post a Comment