BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE IN TRINCITY MALONEY

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Around 85 families from the Constituency of Trincity Maloney are said to have received assistance for their children to return to school.  It was done through a book drive hosted annually by Member of Parliament for the area Camille Robinson-Regis. However this year, amid many job losses, the need was greater.  Alicia Boucher

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00:00A need surpassing what was there previously as people gathered at the Red

00:04Hill Community Center in Maloney to receive assistance for their children to

00:09return to school for the new academic year in September. Chairman of the Tuna

00:13Puna Piako Regional Corporation Josiah Austin speaking to the experience of

00:18Bridges' entrance city Maloney. In this instance mostly the vulnerable families

00:24who are affected by job losses, CPEP, Reforestation Programme and URP, they are

00:30all assembled here. We've seen not just where books and vouchers and book bags and

00:36the back-to-school stuff are concerned, we're also seeing where food support is

00:41concerned, we have to lend some support. Counselor for Mausica Maloney Stefan

00:45Watley tells us there are many people in the area who were employed under the now

00:50dismantled programs. A number of persons would have reached out on count we have

00:55about 85 to 90 persons would have reached out actively and of course in any

01:02distribution such as these you will have other persons hearing about it and they

01:06show up on the day so we would have catered extra, we would have filled a number

01:10of book lists, we have our scholarships through Cipriani College, we have our

01:16vouchers and also we have hampers. Gerard Charles was one of those laid off on the

01:23CPAP adding to the struggle for him and his extended family. I came here today in

01:29the capacity of receiving a food hamper which will assist me maybe for a week or two

01:36which I'm so highly grateful for the MP. This is actually because I'm not really

01:41coming to actually collect a food hamper for myself due to the crisis right now in

01:46the country. Betty Ann Soye is a cancer survivor and a grandmother of five who

01:51depend on her. She says she was employed under URP since 1991 and the situation

01:57now has left her feeling stressed out. It affects me very very very bad because as

02:04they stop the work well most ideas I'm thinking is I just have to be up and

02:09down up and down going doctor to doctor right yes I have plenty medical issue and

02:18since this government come in power I have more medical issue. Austin and Watley

02:22appraising the efforts of corporate TNT for making the back to school initiative

02:26which we're told cost just over $100,000 possible. Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.

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