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The Maxfield Park Children's Home will be the focus of this year's Labour Day parish project for Kingston and St. Andrew, spearheaded by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC).

Town Clerk, Errol Greene made the disclosure during an interview with JIS News.

According to Mr. Greene, the Maxfield Park Children's Home was specifically chosen to get the children to practice the Labour Day theme, which focuses on agriculture under the theme 'Eat what we grow: grow what we eat'.

"We want to do something for the children's home and we want the children to be exposed because we think they would be the best ones to carry the message", the Town Clerk emphasized.

"We [want to] catch the children from an early age and give them that exposure.we should try to be self sufficient and sustaining and expose them to the dirt so they can appreciate things growing and they can nurture them as well," he also noted.

According to the Town Clerk, the KSAC has had a long established relationship with the Maxfield Park Children's Home, which houses less fortunate children and "we want to give them the exposure and get them involved in nurturing these plants until they reach fruition."

The aim of the project is to plant fruit trees such as mangoes and sweet sop and vegetables like tomatoes and peppers and other cash crop on the property.

In the meantime, he is appealing to residents and corporate Jamaica to donate their time, cash or kind to the project.

"We are looking for sponsors because we are going to need shovels, hoses, and other farming implements. We also need sweat equity so we are appealing to residents in and around the area of the Maxfield Park Children's Home and well wishers to come and support us in this very worthwhile project," Mr. Green stated.

"When you plant a tree, you are really planting something that will go towards sustainable development of not just the corporate area but for Jamaica," he pointed out.

According to the Town Clerk, work will commence at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, May 23 and some of the workers will include the Mayor of Kingston, Senator Desmond McKenzie, the Member of Parliament for the area, Dr. Peter Phillips, Councillor Trevor Bernard, custodes in the area, and the contestants of the Miss Kingston and St. Andrew Festival Queen pageant.

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