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Hanover Ministers Fraternal expand street people programme
BY CHRIS BODDEN
Thursday, May 07, 2009
LUCEA, Hanover -
The Hanover Ministers Fraternal has embarked on a new thrust to remove the mentally challenged from the streets.
The initiative, which came out of recent meetings between the Fraternal, the Western Regional Mental Health Authorities and the Hanover Parish Council, will start in June.
It will see the group providing counselling, rehabilitation as well as a hot meal, a bath, clean clothes and medication to persons mentally challenged .
The Fraternal, which has provided meals for Hanover's street people for the past fifteen years, is a voluntary service, comprising some nine churches, namely the Anglican, Baptist and United Churches as well as Assembly of Holiness, Christian Fellowship, the Methodist Church, Shiloh Apostolic, Full Gospel and New Testament Church of God.
The Fraternal presently feeds approximately 500 persons on Tuesdays at the RSCD complex on Millers Drive in Lucea.
Those who are shut in also benefit as meals are also taken to them in areas such as Green Island, Johnson Town, Dias and Askenish.
Speaking to Father Percival Lynch vice-chair of the Fraternal with direct responsibility for the soup kitchen he said that it costs $1.3 million per year to fund the programme. He said most of the funding comes through the Hanover Charities with assistance also from Food for The Poor.
He went on to say that funding is their biggest hurdle and took the opportunity to make an appeal to the Hanover business community particularly those in the Lucea and Green Island areas to get involved with the programme and assist in any way they can.
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