Projects The 2001 Award went to the Cave Island Citizens' Association in Trelawny, which executed a number of projects, commercial and non-commercial, including water supply and environmental sanitation, attracting assistance from the National Water Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Woodside Community Development Action Group of St Mary won the third Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance in 2002. The group showed a clear grasp of its heritage and a highly developed sense of community in pursuing its main goal, the improvement of the economic well-being of the citizens of Woodside. It organises lectures and discussions, operates a library, helps to educate its children and adults, promotes community and heritage tourism, facilitates water supply and sanitation, and is involved in entertainment, catering, agro-processing, food preservation, art and craft and organic farming. The fourth Award, in 2003, went to the Maroon Town Community Enterprise, in St James, which operates a factory that manufactures banana and plantain chips from material produced in the district and farther afield. As well as providing employment for people of Maroon Town, the project benefits a wide range of social and cultural causes in the community. << BACK                                                                                NEXT >>