{"id":23673,"date":"2024-10-28T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23673"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:32:28","slug":"swan-residents-receive-support-for-home-construction-and-community-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/swan-residents-receive-support-for-home-construction-and-community-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Residents Receive Support for Home Construction and Community Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Kimberly Giddings<\/em><br><em>October 7, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents recently allocated leased lands at Swan Extension along the Soesdyke Highway received valuable support this weekend to assist in building their homes and enhancing their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwame McCoy, the Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Public Affairs, visited the community with a team from the Ministry of Housing and Water on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, he presented residents with two weeding machines and block-making molds, essential tools for land preparation and construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The machines will aid in clearing the land, while the molds will enable residents to produce their own building blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Rodrigues, a resident of Swan, expressed her appreciation for the government&#8217;s initiative, highlighting that the support allows community members to allocate their resources more efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasized the importance of utilizing the materials provided to work collaboratively towards improving their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the machines and molds, Minister McCoy announced that the community would also receive four slings of cement to assist in block production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reassured residents that the government is committed to providing ongoing support throughout the construction process, emphasizing the importance of community engagement in building their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of Swan have shown a strong commitment to community development, volunteering to assist one another in weeding their lands and constructing cement blocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collaborative spirit reflects the unity and determination of the residents as they work together to build their futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The residents received their land leases in June of this year from President Irfaan Ali, marking a significant step towards home ownership and community growth in the Swan Extension area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kimberly GiddingsOctober 7, 2024 Residents recently allocated leased lands at Swan Extension along the Soesdyke Highway received valuable support this weekend to assist in building their homes and enhancing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23679,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions\/23679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}