The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Cash for Work, Community Clean-up project recently focused on St. Maarten Zoo. Through partnership support with the Ministry of Infrastructure VROMI, UNDP hired contractor Pro Resources with a team of 21, comprising mostly women, to clean the area.
Other Cash for Work activities are in Oyster Pond where partnerships with Nature Foundation, VROMI and Kidz at Sea were established to clear debris from portions of the lagoon and its perimeter to ensure wild life and mangroves are protected. UNDP and Collective Prevention Services (CPS) are executing a mosquito-flogging programme. CPS was able to train unemployed persons in mosquito flogging to become Vector Control Apprentices. This joint effort creates a focus on the elimination of mosquito breeding at debris clean-up sites. The Cash for Work project, funded from early Dutch recovery fund, gives persons who are unemployed or underemployed the opportunity to participate in community clean-up and be paid for their work.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/75970-cash-for-work
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