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RESIDENTS BENIFITING FROM UNDP AND USAID

A large number of young people throughout Carriacou and Petite Martinique are presently grasping the golden opportunity to develop themselves through a diversity of training programmes now on the way at several venues throughout both sister isles.

This is being made possible through a series of current programs being sponsored by U.S AID and the United Nation’s Development programme.

Both organizations are jointly sponsoring programmes in the area of craft, sewing, building of model boats, and calabash/bouley designing.

U.N.D.P is also financing the upgrading of the Regatta Jupa, construction of the Bogles Community Center, plus capacity strengthening programs for community based organizations and non-governmental organizations.

With the exception of the calabash/bouley program which is to start next week, all the other projects are well on the way and have attracted full participation from through out the length and breath of Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

Coordinator of the program here Dexter Leggard said he is pleased with the response of the participants and the level of enthusiasm they are bringing to the various programs.

Leggard added that upon completion both the Regatta Jupa and the Bogles Community Center could well be used as emergency shelters in case of a hurricane.

The entire project is in the region of some one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars ($175,000.)

The steering entities of the project are, The Carriacou Regatta Committee, the Ministry of Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs, Bogles Development Group and the Petite Martinique Cultural and Aquatic Committee.

Residents benefiting from UNDP and USAID – by Rawle Paterson
Grenada Informer

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