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community centres. Work is also on-going on
six community centres: Blanchisseuse
,
Boos, Hermitage, La Lune, El Socorro, and Las
Lomas No. 2.
Through the Refurbishment of Civic Centres
and Complexes Programme, the MCD is able
to improve and enhance community facilities
throughout the country. For fiscal 2013 the
following was achieved:
• Completed works at theWarrenville Regional
Complex;
• Completed design for extension and
awarded contract for the refurbishment of
Toco Regional complex;
• Evaluated tenders and contracts are to be
awarded for the Esperance, Plaisance and
Sangre Grande civic centres;
• Conducted the procurement process for the
Mayaro Civic Centre.
iii. Transformation Development Centres -
TDCs
The Transformation Development Centres
(formerly known as Relief Centres) were
developed as an intervention strategy to
address the societal concerns related to hunger,
homelessness, unemployment and the absence
of marketable skills among members of the
national community. The programme seeks
to provide meals, training in employable skills
and other social services designed to improve
the self-esteem, marketability, productivity and
independence of the recipients.This programme
currently provide meals to an estimated 100
persons per day with the aim to transform the
lives of the needy through: providing food (meals
prepared on site) to persons in the communities
who are unable to feed themselves 50,000
needy persons benefitted from this programme.
iv. Substance Abuse Prevention
TheNational Alcohol andDrugAbuse Prevention
Programme (NADAPP) is designed to educate
the national community, specifically vulnerable
groups on the dangers of the use and misuse/
abuse of illicit, as well as licit substances. For
the period October 2012 to June, 2013 NADAPP
embarked on a number of Public Information
dissemination initiatives, which targeted the
general population of Trinidad and Tobago. The
projects undertaken were:
• A Pre School Drug Prevention Initiative with
objectives to:
• sensitise
pre-school
managers/
principals and/or teachers of the
different types of drugs used and their
harmful effects;
• alert pre-school educators about the
signs and symptoms of children exposed
to drugs substances;
• provide teachers with substance use and
abuse prevention methodologies and
approaches; and
• establish a NADAPP led network among
caregivers of pre-school children as part
of the overall goal of the 2008-2012
National Anti-drug Plan with respect to
demand reduction;
• A National Primary and Secondary School
Drug Prevention Initiative with objectives to:
• prevent and reduce the demand for
substance abuse; and
• educate and equip all primary and
secondary school aged children with the
necessary knowledge and skills to resist
the temptation to use drugs.
During the period October, 2012 to June, 2013,
the NADAPP conducted 94 outreach activities,
which included lectures and information
dissemination booths at both primary and
secondary schools through the education
districts of Trinidad and Tobago.
A Treatment and Rehabilitation Initiative
(Assistance to NGOs involved in Treatment
and Rehabilitation Initiatives) - The objective
of this initiative was to facilitate the effective
and efficient operations of the therapeutic
