Tag: poverty
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MDGs-SDGs Pilot project on Poverty Alleviation good example
In September 2016 the project ‘Community Back Yard Gardening program St. Maarten’ embarked at Spaceless Garden in St. Peters as one of the pilot projects to combine several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) together, aiming “Eradication of poverty and hunger” on St. Maarten. This project was geared to the increase of awareness on agriculture and its…
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Feed our Families program – Social Services, businesses team up
PHILIPSBURG–The Department of Social Services have teamed up with food suppliers and businesses to provide essential food items to needy families in the community under an initiative named “Feed our families.” Under the programme, participating businesses will donate basic non-perishable food items to some 50 families who have been identified by the Department. Food items…
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Fire victims ask, not to forget us
TDH – ST. PETERS–Victims of the St. Peters fire are struggling to get their lives back in order. Although they have received support from individual people, Tzu Chi Foundation and the community centre, organised support from the government has been sadly lacking, other than in the days immediately after the fire, one of the…