Sat | May 4, 2024

M & M Jamaica aids in COVID-19 relief efforts

Published:Thursday | May 21, 2020 | 12:23 AM
Nicola Morris, administrator at the Black River Hospital and a board member of directors’ warden at the All Souls Anglican Church is delighted to receive masks from Donald Mullings, founder and managing director, M & M Jamaica Limited, for the Black River Hospital.  The donation will benefit the more than 300 staff members at the type ‘C’ facility.  
Contributed
Nicola Morris, administrator at the Black River Hospital and a board member of directors’ warden at the All Souls Anglican Church is delighted to receive masks from Donald Mullings, founder and managing director, M & M Jamaica Limited, for the Black River Hospital.  The donation will benefit the more than 300 staff members at the type ‘C’ facility.  

Construction giant M & M Jamaica Ltd has donated much-needed masks to front-line healthcare workers at the Black River Hospital as well as care packages to approximately 500 households in Kingston and St Elizabeth to aid in COVID-19 relief efforts.

The company, with its head office in Kingston, donated disposable masks and food packages valued upwards of $500,000 for distribution through Speculation Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and All Souls Anglican Church in St Elizabeth as well as Tarrant High School and the Church of the Ascension outreach programme in Kingston.

The communities to benefit are Pond Pen, Spring Park, Speculation, Cambridge, Brompton, Fyffes Pen, Shrewsbury, Luana, Oxford, New Town, and Killmurry in St Elizabeth, along with Jacks Hill, St Andrew, and Tarrant in Kingston

According to Nicola Morris, administrator at the Black River Hospital and directors’ warden at the All Souls Anglican Church, the donations are timely and will greatly benefit the over 300 staff members at the type ‘C’ hospital as well as hundreds of Jamaicans who have lost their source of income due to COVID-19.

“Many of our community members worked in the hotel industry. Others are indigent and rely heavily on persons who are now out of jobs. The care packages will provide meals for an extended period, so we are truly grateful for the assistance,” she says.

The packages include cooking oil, flour, sugar, salt fish, rice, and canned mackerel.

Targeting PATH students

The principal of Tarrant High School in Kingston, Major Paul Hall, says the school plans on targeting the donations to children on the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) who are now out of school. This amounts to over 300 students.

“We can’t reach everyone as the number of students on PATH has increased significantly since the pandemic. What we will do is assess, as best as possible, the neediest households in our school community. My staff is fully on board to assist in the effort.”

M & M Jamaica Ltd has had a long-standing relationship with the parish of St Elizabeth owing to its founder and Managing Director Donald Mullings being a son of the soil. The company has established numerous tertiary scholarships for members within the community of Brompton as well as hosts the annual M & M Mathematics Competition.