The Dominica Guadeloupe Association has kept a promise it made to provide assistance to the Soufriere Primary School following the passage of Tropical Storm Erika.
After the storm members of the association visited the school and promised to assist.
“We made a visit to the Soufriere school, and the first phase, we decided to have a covering for one of the classes,” President of the association, Maymont Paul told DNO. “We came to Dominica, visited the site and we went back to Guadeloupe to decide what can we do and we came back with the idea to give them a covering, fencing, and painting.”
On Tuesday a contract was signed between Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development, Marcella Powell and Contractor of M&J Covering Co.Ltd, David Macklean Elizee for the project, which is expected to begin on Friday 29, April 2016.
The project will be in three phases with the first costing $15,000 for the covering of the school while the second phase will provide fencing and the painting of the school will be the final phase.
“It is our promise to the school and to Dominica,” Paul said.
He stated that the roof covering is expected to be completed in four days.
The association has also donated books, toys and other donations to various schools across the island following the August 27th storm
wait a minute..is the man with the white shirt in the back sleeping on himself?
It is still a good gesture from Dominicans living in Guadeloupe but at the same time why is it the gov’t had over $50.000 to give to charity in India ? Immediately after a storm ravaged the island ,to make it worse than it was the gov’t had money to give to charity.Now that same money could improve the abandoned hotel that Linton started and the one Marrakesh promised to build which should normally finish years a back but is still standing waiting when tourists are turning their backs on neglected Dominica.We need to be self sustainable ,it is time that who ever it is with a management problem get out of the way and allow someone else to do the work.We can find selling on internet and in shops overseas ,zooti or nettle ,dasheen leaves,banana chips,plantain chips, yam flour,dasheen flour ,bananas,plantains ,pepper ,cocao, while so much going to waste in Dominica we are relying on charity,or selling passports ,the country cannot progress if it is not productive..when will we learn?
Well done and just deserve – thanks a million times to Dominica Guadeloupe Association.