Children, the elderly and the disabled living in the De La Vega City in Spanish Town, St Catherine, will be feted by the De La One Blood Family charity on Christmas Eve (December 24) as they set to launch a series of engagements aimed at making life more tolerable for the less fortunate in the under-served community.

Established in June 2020, De La One Blood Family is not-for-profit foundation operating in De La Vega City, Spanish Town, charged a mandate of assisting the most vulnerable within the community and its surrounding areas.

Over the past 18 months, they provided meals more than 150 members of the community on a bi-weekly basis. Funding comes primarily from members of their board and founder Raymond Gordon, all of whom are past community members and migrants of Jamaica.

For this coming charity event, De La One Blood Family intends to prepare and deliver meals, treats, including cake and ice cream, as well as care packages to more than 200 members of the De La Vega City community.

However, the largesse does not end there.

“We are also making preparations for the year ahead and hope to, with your support, gain additional sponsorship partners for 2022, to sustain and support our bi-weekly warm meal delivery and dry food distribution efforts; see schedule below,” said board member Lotoy Morgan, the charity’s acting secretary.

“This extended programme will allow a greater portion of our elders and legally disabled to have access to meals and groceries on a frequent and consistent basis.”

Against that background, they have planned a twice-monthly meal delivery initiative from January to December 2022; food distribution initiatives for March, June, September and December 2022. There are also plans to activate back-to-school initiatives for August and September 2022.