THE BARBADOS SCHOOL Meals Department has been given $1 000 worth in locally-grown provisions, fruits and vegetables.
The donation came from the Barbados Manufacturers’ Association (BMA), the Barbados
Agricultural Society (BAS) and the Barbados Agriculture Development Management Company (BDMC).
BMA’s executive director Bobbi McKay announced the donation yesterday – Eat Bajan Day – when representatives from the three organisations visited St Ambrose Primary school to tell students about the importance of eating locally-grown foods.
BAS chief executive officer James Paul said: “If we can introduce young people at a very tender age to locally- produced food, it becomes a part of them. What is happening in our society is that young children are being exposed to foods that are foreign to them and as they grow older they are not able to accept locally produced foods.”
McKay said that locally-grown foods were healthier for consumption than some which were imported preserved and processed.
“It really hurts my heart when I see people in offices eating imported tamarinds and showing you how wonderful they are.
“We need to encourage the kids to eat more ground provision; things that when we were growing up we used and we were a whole lot healthier than they are nowadays when they eat a lot of nonsense.” (AH)
Above, (from left) Manager of the School Meals Department, Marcilia Nelson, school meals officer Dawn Browne, principal of the St Ambrose Primary school, Jacqueline Andwele, the school’s headgirl Avielle Gaskin, administrator at the Barbados Manufacturers’ Association, Roydon Blades, chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society James Paul and BMA’s executive director Bobbi McKay looking at locally-grown foods on Eat Bajan Day.
(Picture by Lennox Devonish
