New market place in Village Solidarité Simmonds-Pelé

The construction of a new marketplace for the area's vendors was carried out through help from the Caribbean Development Bank, The World Bank and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). Not only will sellers have a more hygienic, less potentially dangerous place to work, the marketplace was set up to conduct other functions. According to the Program Director and Senior Technical Advisor for PADF, Erick Déryce, the marketplace will, in the evenings, be a youth center where kids of all ages can come to socialize and study.

All parties have expressed enthusiasm for the venture; among them, the vendors who the market will most benefit. One of their number, Jeanne Lironne Mondésir, called the new market a "Dream come through." The clean up consisted of 18 trucks to clear out the garbage, allowing for a larger number of patrons to the market. The project was funded to the tune of $93, 000, just over $4 million gourds.

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