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- Completion of Community Initiative
And Visitor Information Centre (CIVIC)
- Construction and Management of Toco
Food Pavilion
- Pilot Organic Farming Project
With assistance from the UNDP GEF SGP, SAD is in the final stages
of preparing a feasibility study for a pilot agricultural project
in the Toco Region, which SAD hopes to launch during 2003.
- Management and Co-ordination of the NE Trinidad Component
of the CREP Galleons Passage Amenity Area
SAD has been designated to act as the non-governmental focal point for
the above (CREP),
initiative, which is due to be launched in 2003 and be implemented over
a 32-month period.
- Legal Advice Clinic
SAD has secured the services of a number of eminent lawyers, who have
agreed to provide free seminars and clinics on legal issues commonly
affecting members of the community, such as land tenure and inheritance.
The intention is not to provide legal representation to individuals,
but to empower community members to make sound decisions and to seek
appropriate professional representation if needed. It is hoped that
the Legal Advice Clinic will provide a model for a similar initiative
in the social services arena – our Family Life and Family Services
Centre.
- Lobbying for the Creation of a Nature and Heritage Park
in the Salibay/Galera area of Toco village
This area consists of an abandoned coconut estate within which can
be found the region’s most popular beach, Trinidad’s largest
(some say only) coral reef, an historic lighthouse and Galera Point
– a rocky outcrop where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic Ocean,
from which in the 17th century rebel Amerindians threw themselves
to their deaths rather than be captured by the Spanish.
Absentee ownership has resulted in the area becoming a de facto
public space and SAD is lobbying the government to seize this opportunity
to invest in the preservation of this exceptionally serene and scenic
area, and to convert it into a revenue- and employment-generating
Nature and Heritage Park. This would not only provide an exceptional
amenity area for local and international visitors alike, but would
avoid the type of resource use conflicts which have arisen at Pigeon
Point in our sister island Tobago.
