Emerald Project taking steps to take care of the environment

The Emerald Project, a registered charity committed to working in the St. George community, will be working with residents to help them better take care of their environment.

Founder and Director of The Emerald Project, Fay Burke recently indicated that the charity, which started its work last year by visiting schools such as Cuthbert Moore, Workmans, St. Judes and St. George Primary to deliver sports gear and literature to help students improve in the area of self-development, has had to curtail its plans for the year 2020, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

However, Burke noted that the charity has decided not to completely stop it’s work, but to carry out those initiatives which are still practical and as such, The Emerald Project just wrapped up the last of three free agricultural training workshops at the Valley Resource Centre in St. George. Now, those at the helm are turning their focus towards a project, which will see garbage cans which have been donated by Berger Paints and creatively painted and decorated by Roger Craigg, distributed throughout communities in St. George, to ensure that residents can better keep their surroundings in a more sanitary state and to ensure that garbage disposal is no longer an issue.

“We had a lot of plans for this year, but of course we were curtailed by COVID. We however decided that we would not sit idly by and hence our recent Backyard Gardening Training Sessions,” Burke told The Barbados Advocate, after the previous project wrapped up.

“We also maintain the landscaping at the Valley Resource Centre and the gentleman who cuts the grass for us, he would have realised that in the community, there are a lot of people who are not disposing of garbage correctly. So the distribution of garbage cans is actually our next project. Berger Paints has given us a number of cans and Roger Craigg is actually painting the cans for us and I also want to thank Roger Hinkson for sorting them out as well,” Burke indicated.

“So we have a few garbage cans which we will be distributing throughout the community and that is also a way of protecting our environment as well, because we are very passionate about the environment. Agriculture and the environment, they go hand in hand. So we we’re very much interested in the overall protection of our community,” The Emerald Project’s founder remarked.