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Ottley Shares Plans For Period Poverty, Affordable Child Care

PHILIPSBURG--Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor VSA Omar Ottley told Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday, as he returned to answer questions posed during the first round of questions, that the ministry is working on plans to address period poverty in schools and access to affordable child care/day care centres.

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Single Mothers Empowerment Programme For International WomenS Day Is Being Planned

PHILIPSBURG (DCOMM):---  In celebration of International Womens Day (IWD) 2023, the Department of Community Development, Family and Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA) of the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour (VSA) is collaborating with the Listening Companion to host a Single Mothers Empowerment Programme theme Better Together from March to May 2023.

The six-week programme is an initiative in commemoration of Womens month and will launch on Saturday, March 25, 2023, with a meet and greet of participants and facilitators at conference room #1 in the Government Building Read more

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PHILIPSBURG:--- On Tuesday, February 28, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development, and Labor (VSA), Omar Ottley met with the President of Water Sanitation and Youth Mr. Raphael Sanchez, Special Representative of GEBE Troy Washington, and Senior advisor to the President of the Collectivite Alex Richards to discuss the possibility of Dutch Sint Maarten supplying water to its French counterparts due to a water shortage Read more

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