by Linda Straker
- Foundation donated 1,200 food hampers
- Food hampers sourced through partnerships with local supermarkets
- Deliveries began on Thursday and will continue into next week
Helping Hands, a foundation funded by the principals of the Kimpton Kawana Bay project, is bringing a little light to 1,200 families across Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique this holiday season.
The donation of 1,200 food hampers is being organised by the foundation, led by Grenada’s Consul General in Miami, Ambassador Warren Newfield. Already, many families across the state have received their holiday hampers and further deliveries are on the way.
The packaged hampers are replete with Christmas staples, and each basket also comes with a personalised note from the Helping Hands Foundation, for every recipient.
According to Ambassador Newfield, this year’s initiative is a direct response to the Covid-19 crisis, which has severely impacted many families in Grenada, as it has done around the world. “While our foundation continues to assist in areas of healthcare and education, we thought it necessary this year to reach out in a tangible and direct way to affected families, who will likely experience a less than merry holiday season. For us, it is not only a donation of food items but also one that we hope will bring some joy into homes and hearts across our Islands,” said Newfield.
The Ambassador and his team at Kimpton Kawana Bay are hopeful that for many households, food security, through these hampers, will be one less worry on their plate as the year ends.
Already, the food hampers, sourced through partnerships with local supermarkets, are being delivered by trucks, with the staff of the Foundation on hand to meet and greet the families. According to team leader, Daisy Joseph Andall, “this entire endeavour is a personal journey for us because we want to be part of the solution by spreading love and joy this holiday season. At the end of the day, we must look out for each other as we never know who might need it next. From the onset, Kimpton Kawana Bay has been about family and about giving back to Grenada.”
The company’s staff members, originating from 5 parishes across Grenada, are all involved in the process — from sourcing, to packaging, to deliveries. They have also hired several local helpers, with distinct knowledge of the villages, to assist in the holiday giveback process.
The ultra-exclusive Kimpton Kawana Bay Resort in Morne Rouge, St George, is in the advanced stages of construction. The deliveries began on Thursday and will continue into next week.
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Food parcels for the poor. An old superior missionary exercise. They cannot feed themselves. They depend on us. Let us show them how good we are. After we have taken away their lands, human dignity and civil rights – et us now shoe them how dependent un us that they are, even for their daily bread. Hope Sabbath school – God’s lessons for life.
God cannot bless your hands if you do not do any work. Part of God/s plan is for humans to work. By the sweat of thy brow, you shall eat bread.
Solomon is known to be the wisest and wealthiest human in antiquity. He offers the Antidote to Laziness Solomon’s counsel
“The desire of the lazy man kills him. For his hands refused to labour”.
Proverbs 21:25 New King James Version (NKJV)
Solomon offers a way out of laziness that leads to poverty
“Go to the ant you sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain overseer or ruler; provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
How long will you slumber oh sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep.
A little slumber,
A little holding of hands to slumber?
So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,
and your need like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:6, 8, 9 an 10. (NJV)
Solomon is known to be the wisest and wealthiest human in antiquity. He offers the Antidote to Laziness Solomon’s counsel
Is this a red flag waving universally in contemporary societies?
Wonderful new! More of this please!
It is Great to see that our Foreign investors not only take interest into them selves but into locals around the country! Great to see that they had given out food to locals. I believe that foreigners are doing good in this country and not bad!
Sadly the same ones who have a negative opinion on this are the same ones that can’t even contribute a single thing to the country. Chinese donates food to people, people are angered over it. Foreign investors come to give out food to many in need, people would want to see them as doing no good, but at the same time we Grenadian people can’t even go out there to help each other and those in need.
The sad reality is that we can’t even contribute one single thing to this country but at the same time. We get angry at foreigners for doing something we can’t even do. We haven’t even seek the interests within contributing towards building this country with a strong nationalism and as one people but at the same time all we do is complain and create hate propaganda.
I can understand that It looks like the foreigners are taking over the country. But again If you ask yourself.
Who are the ones that own the shops in town? Who are the ones that are building more hotels around the country creating jobs and employment? Who are the ones building resturants??? It is all foreigners but not Grenadians. We cannot kick foreigners out of the country if there are no signs of self sustainable developent. In order to develop this country we have to be willing to help one another. It is called nation building and not propaganderism.