FFTP hands over $13M Resource Centre at Bath/Woodley Park

Food For The Poor Inc (FFTP) on Wednesday handed over the Bath/Woodley Park Resource Centre at Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), which was constructed at a cost of $13 million.
FFTP Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kent Vincent during the handing over ceremony indicated, “We have sanitary facilities, a rain harvesting unit, kitchen, conference area, computer room with AC unit, eight desktop computers, sewing machines, one six burner gas stove, a 32” television, one hundred folding chairs and eight folding tables. We do not just put up the building and leave it, we try to fit it as best as we could with things that would benefit the community.”

However, Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphel encouraged the Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) and stakeholders to engage the communities and their people, so as to have more trained individuals emerging from the facility.
He also stated that the centre can also be used for other programmes that can benefit the young people in the area. The centre, which is a 50 ft x 30 ft concrete building, will promote development by providing easy access to learning resources and life skills training programmes. It will also empower and improve the quality of life for the people in Bath/Woodley Park and neighbouring communities.
It also aims to promote socio-economic development through the promotion of education and life skills training for the residents of the community. This, in turn, will promote education and help expand the employability and income generation of the people in the community.
As such, the investment made by Food For The Poor (GY) Inc will allow the community to accommodate, workshops/sensitisation programmes on social, education, health and other issues, skills training programmes such as garment construction, Information Technology, cookery, community meetings, recreational gatherings and educational enhancement programmes (afternoon classes and remedial teaching).