The Barbados Youth Action Programme is struggling to keep its free breakfast service up and running.
President of the charitable organisation, Lumumba Batson, said this was evident after visits to several schools and hearing repeated cries from children who started classes on empty stomachs.
He said they had solicited help from corporate Barbados since January, but donations mainly came from members of the Wildey community and surrounding districts who placed money in a box at the village shop Peggy’s Place.
Batson said more was needed to keep the meals programme going after ten months in existence.
“We know we can’t feed everybody but this is a start. We were also hoping that it would branch out to other communities eventually. Usually we go five days a week but we are thinking about cutting back two days because we are not getting the support that we need to keep it going,” Batson said.
He said meals left back were given to senior citizens in the area.
Batson was one of many people in the St Michael South East constituency who sounded off on the recent move of former Democratic Labour Party member Patrick Tannis’ recent move to the Barbados Labour Party. (TG)
