$1.2M for Self-Help projects

MORE THAN 2,500 residents living in communities across Trinidad and Tobago will benefit from 22 self-help projects carded for implementation next week. The projects, which are estimated to cost $1.25 million, will be implemented by the National Commission For Self Help Ltd (NCSH) through funding from the Community Develop-ment Fund (CDF). The social and infrastructural projects include construction of roads, refurbishing of homes for the aged, pan theatres and installation of water and electricity. They will be implemented through the NCSH in collaboration with the Ministry of Community Develop-ment and Culture and the CDF. This initiative is in keeping with the NCSH’s commitment to support Govern-ment’s measures to alleviate poverty and achieve developed country status by 2020.

Some of the social and cultural projects include refurbishment of the Memisa Centre for intellectually impaired persons; The Ezekiel Home for the Aged and Destitute, Preysal, Couva; Child Welfare League, Chag-uanas; The Marion House, Living Water Community; Mt Paran Spiritual Baptist Church, Bethel, Tobago; and Rede-mption Sound Setters Steel Orchestra. The infrastructural projects include roads at Boodoo Trace, Brazil and Hilltop Road, Claxton Bay; electricity at Churchill Boulevard, Barrackpore; water at Desperlie Crescent, La-ventille; and drainage at Picton, Laventille.