Food for the Poor wins Martin Luther King Award
FOOD for the Poor, one of Jamaica’s leading charity organisations, has been named winner of the 2007 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.
The award will be presented at the Jamaica-America Friendship Award Association’s Banquet at the Jamaica Pegasus in Kingston next Saturday, April 28, under the patronage of the Governor General Professor Kenneth Hall and the United States Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson.
This prestigious award is presented annually to distinguished Jamaican or American persons or organisations considered to have lived and worked in the spirit of the late American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
Past Jamaican recipients include Prime Ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga; businessmen Abe Issa and Carlton Alexander; Father Richard Holung and Lady Bustamante. Last year the award went to Douglas Orane, chairman of GraceKennedy, and Sir William Morris, the Jamaican who has been named to the House of Lords in England.
Food for the Poor, founded by Jamaican businessman Ferdinand Mahfood in 1983, is an inter-denominational relief and development organisation working in 16 countries in the Caribbean and Central America to assist the poorest of the poor.
