FORMER Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) workers are struggling to survive, much less send their children to school on September 8, after being fired from their jobs by the government in June.

On June 27, all Cepep contractors were handed termination letters leaving an estimated 360 contractors and more than 10,500 workers unemployed.

Natasha John of Morvant said she was pregnant with her third child at the time of her termination. She was due in September but when he went to the maternity clinic at Port of Spain General Hospital for her usual check-up in July, she was warded.