India provides food packages for Jamaica’s indigent
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Jamaica’s impoverished community will get assistance from the Government of India, which has committed to providing 750 food packages twice weekly as part of the country’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
The delivery of the packages will be done by the Good Samaritan Inn in Kingston, which currently has an ongoing programme to assist the island’s poor and needy community.
“We celebrate 75 years but we don’t celebrate poverty, we don’t celebrate hunger and we endeavour to end hunger and poverty, not only from India, not only from Jamaica but from across the world.”
High Commissioner of India to Jamaica, Rungsung Masakui
India’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Rungsung Masakui stated that India is also using the opportunity to assist Jamaicans during the time of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“We celebrate 75 years of independence and in this year we are partnering with Good Samaritan to do a small thing for the underprivileged community, as we all know that, because of the pandemic situation, many people have become jobless, many people have increased difficulties through this time and so Good Samaritan has been having this programme in the centre, distributing food packages to homes and families who do not have food to eat,” Masakui said
“We celebrate 75 years but we don’t celebrate poverty, we don’t celebrate hunger and we endeavour to end hunger and poverty, not only from India, not only from Jamaica but from across the world.”
According to Masakui, the act of kindness is enshrined in India’s constitution as Mahatma Gandhi, who battled for an independent India from British rule, believed that India must assist others throughout the world.
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