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Published:Thursday | March 5, 2020 | 12:06 AM
From left: Andrei Roper, brand manager, Restaurants of Jamaica (ROJ); Dr Grace McLean, permanent secretary (acting), Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI); Karl Samuda, minister without portfolio, MoEYI; Tina Matalon, marketing director, ROJ; Kevin Downswell, gospel artiste and Add Hope ambassador; Andrew Narine, CEO, Nutrition Products Limited (NPL); and Capt Kasan Troupe, acting chief education officer, MoEYI. The occasion was a memorandum of understanding ceremony at the Mona Heights Primary School in Kingston on February 20 between ROJ, NPL and the MoEYI. ROJ, through its Add Hope programme, donated $7.4 million to NPL to aid in the MoEYI’s National School Feeding Programme. It is estimated that the funds will provide nutritious breakfasts and lunches for over 3,000 students across 82 schools islandwide.