MONTEGO BAY, ST James — The Montego Bay Indian Benevolent Society last week provided over 100 homeless ‘street people’ with meals at the Open Heart Charity Mission care centre where the street people are fed on a daily basis.

The homeless streamed steadily into the facility where they were served dishes by members of the Indian Benevolent Society, most of whom are prominent business operators in the “friendly city”.

Amanda Thompson, administrator for the Open Heart Charity Mission Care Centre and Night Shelter was ecstatic.

” We feed over 80 persons downtown Montego Bay and 32 at the shelter so you find that sometimes the crowd swells more than usual but we always cook extra food so that everybody can be satisfied. But they never usually come all at one time, they usually trickle in one by one. So food has to be always there for them to eat so today (last Wednesday) is one of the days they are treated,” Thompson argued.

Haresh Ramchandani, president of the Montego Bay Indian Benevolent Society noted that members of his organisation were happy to give back to the community in which their members conducted business.

Ramshandani also provided arm crutches to two elderly persons at the treat.

“As an organisation we have come together to give back to the community in which we live and its equally pleasurable for us to be here and we hope to be more committed and do these things more often and this is hopefully the first of many more,” he said.

According to Thompson, the Indian Benevolent Society was one of six groups that provided food for the indigent last week. The Salvation Army, Faith Fellowship Ministry, Lions Club of St James, Dove Ministry and the Montego Bay Calvary Baptist Church also provided the homeless with meals last week.