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Tai­wan is pro­vid­ing sev­en mil­lion dol­lars (One EC dol­lar=US$0.37 cents) to St. Lu­cia to ad­dress var­i­ous so­cial and de­vel­op­men­tal needs in com­mu­ni­ties through­out the is­land.

A gov­ern­ment state­ment said that five mil­lion dol­lars will be used to sup­port the Small In­fra­struc­ture Projects Ini­tia­tive be­ing im­ple­ment­ed by the St. Lu­cia So­cial De­vel­op­ment Fund (SS­DF) and aimed at im­prov­ing dai­ly life and liv­ing stan­dards in tar­get­ed com­mu­ni­ties by build­ing and re­ha­bil­i­tat­ing new and ex­ist­ing lo­cal in­fra­struc­ture.

The state­ment said that more than 250 com­mu­ni­ty roads and bridges, foot­paths and walk­ways, walls, dwellings and drains in all 17 con­stituen­cies will re­ceive at­ten­tion and that in ad­di­tion to en­hanc­ing com­mu­ni­ty in­fra­struc­ture, the Small In­fra­struc­ture Projects Ini­tia­tive will cre­ate at least 700 new jobs, up­skill labour­ers and gen­er­ate sig­nif­i­cant eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty.