President announces success of Erika relief fund charity project

​His Excellency President Charles Savarin has announced, the success of his charity foundation Erika Relief Fund in raising and distributing funds to help provide medium term relief and comfort to the families, more particularly school children, who resided in two of the worst affected communities on the West Coast, namely Colihaut and Coulibistrie.
After tropical storm Erika massacred the island in August last year, the President’s Charities Foundation launched the Erika Relief Fund Subcommittee and to date, has raised EC$205,818.52, and has disbursed EC$60,000.00 to the Ministry of Education for the construction of a multipurpose hard-court at the Coulibistrie Primary School and $104,466.00 for purchasing and installing of doors and windows, and sourcing items of school furniture from China, for the Colihaut Primary School, in addition some 58 gallons of Sissons Paint donated by Ansa Coatings Ltd. of Trinidad which was handed over to the Ministry for the repainting of affected schools.
It is also the intention of the President’s Charities Foundation to make a contribution to the Grotto Home and the Operation Youth Quake by the end of November 2016 and thereafter to dissolve the Subcommittee as it would have discharged its mandate.