| Project : General Information |
| Project ID : |
51 |
| Project Title : |
Sowing For LIfe |
| Community Name : |
Spring Village |
| Community Description : |
Spring Village is a forming community in North East Trinidad where there is a high percentage of drug inflation, high level of school dropouts, under qualified students, unemployment, low levels of proffesional skills that leads people to engage in negative behavior. |
| Location Name : |
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| Location Address : |
Bassie Extension, Spring Village Valsayn |
| Available Facilities : |
Land Space |
| Problem Addressed : |
This project focuses on the problems of unemployment among high school dropouts, young adults and underutilization of resources in the community. |
| How were the target group involved in identifying the project? : |
Through responses from previous self enhancement program and requests to implement a project like the agricultural one |
| How benefit project : |
This project offers a sustainable form of employment in the area of food production using limited resources to be self sufficient, utilizing available lands to grow crops for resale. To be treated as a major option and take it on a large scale to reduce the dependency on negative jobs as drugs. the behavior that are a result of few options. |
| How involved project deployment : |
Target beneficiaries would be part of the decision making process. tasks would be given to achieve a sense of responsibility control, cleaning, security and maintainence of equipments and tools. Participants would be on the planning committee and representing the association. |
| Environmental concerns : |
All pesticides would be used according to good agircultural practices. Students would be trained to use all equipment in a proffessional manner. all excess materials would be discarded properly to avoid pollution or contamination of water or others. |
