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For sev­er­al for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers, Christ­mas 2025 was marked less by cel­e­bra­tion and more by sur­vival.

Since the ter­mi­na­tion of hun­dreds of CEPEP con­tracts at the end of June, more than 10,000 work­ers have been left with­out a steady in­come, and many say the im­pact has been most painful­ly felt dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son.