Japanese ambassador Tatsuo Hirayama is currently on a three-day mission to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines which commenced on Monday, 17 January and will end on Wednesday, 19 January, 2022.
Today Tuesday, January 18th, 2021 there will be a ceremony at the Lewis Punnett Home in Orange Hill at 3:00 pm. Ambassador Hirayama, UN partners and a representative from the Government of SVG will give brief remarks and kick-start works on the rehabilitation of the Lewis Punnett Home. The delegation will also visit Sandy Bay, one of the communities recovering from the eruption of La Soufrière volcano.
In December 2020, through partnership with the Government of Japan, WFP and Ministry of National Mobilisation, Social Development, Family, Gender Affairs, Youth, Housing and Informal Human Settlement, there was the Soufrière Relief Grant programme to include value vouchers which allowed persons to meet food and related needs during the holidays.
Depending on family size, 3,000 recipient households received vouchers valued between EC350.00 to EC $500.00, reaching 18,000 men, women and children who continue to feel the effects of La Soufrière’s eruption in April 2021.
