Current Projects
 

Composting Garbage Project – Castle Bruce
EC$50,000 has been received for setup costs for this project from the British High Commission.
The plan is to set up a commercially viable composting project that recycles all the organic waste from Castle Bruce.
The manpower initially is to come from a six-month composting and organics Youth Training Program to be run by Fair Trade with the Youth Division and the Ministry of Agriculture (funding is being sought).
The Project has received much technical advice from Autotrade Limited who supply both the chippers and the EM (composting solution) and now the Chipper and truck have been purchased.
A potential foreman for the project has been identified and he is authorized to use the vehicle to generate income for maintaining the vehicle.
Lifeline Projects in collaboration with the British High Commission is emblazoned on the tailgate of the truck.
 
Castle Bruce Bridge Project - Phase 2
Actually initiated with a letter to the British High Commission in 2001, this project was finally opened in November 2003.
The initial grant of EC$10,000 was stretched by enormous community effort and significant donations of materials from the Ministry of Communications & Works.
Phase 2 of the work is now under way.
 
The (Youth Agricultural Training Diversification) YARD Project – Delices
The British High Commission has provided EC$50,000 set up funding for this Youth Training Project.
The moeny has been used to provide equipment and cover the training costs for the first six-month module.
The plan is to provide a model unit demonstrating backyard vegetable production, and ten trainees started a six months training course in September 2004.
The module is produced and managed by the Youth Division in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture.
A further livestock-rearing module is planned and there is a vision for a Young Farmers Cybercafe.
 

Prison Skills Training Project - Phase 2
This project includes further skills training for the group of current Prison Trainees enrolled in courses on electricity, plumbing and roofing, as they seek to complete the building of the new block at the prison and bring about real change in the conditions at the prison.
The project also provides the trainees with a means whereby they can provide for their families whilst they are in prison.
Funding of EC$50,000 is needed to complete this project.
 
The Sustainable Living Initiative Centre (SLIC)
This initiative is seeking funds to construct a building to house its training modules and also demonstration facilities for Alternative Technology Units such as Hydro, Biogas, wind and solar powered generators.
Lifeline Ministries was paid by the UNDP to prepare a proposal for consideration by the GEF Small projects division of the UNDP.
 
Stone Oven Project – Mero
A Christian baker and member of New Day Ministries, Matthew Ferreira, and the Youth Division collaborated to undertake two youth skills training projects.
Six baking trainees learnt baking and pastry making; six stone cutting trainees produced the stones and learnt how to make a new type of Stone Oven.
The project is committed to cleaning the ravine and beach and has been given a brush-cutter and chainsaw for this purpose.
The High Commission visited this project on June 27th 2003.
Funds for this initiative totaled EC$70,000.
The fully functioning Stone Oven is now operational at Mero and there are plans to Patent the design.
 
The Piton Foundation Scholarship Fund project continues and you can rean more about the ongoing developments here.
 
Hospital Water Project
A project to install an anti-bacterial water filtration system for drinking water supplies at the hospital has been funded by the British High Commission for EC$18,000.
Individual drinking water filters have been plumbed in in each ward and a system for removing particulate matter from the mains supply is being tested.
This project was launched in June 2004.
 

Dix Pas Water Project
The British High Commission has donated EC$36,000 to facilitate the supplying of drinking water to the village of Dixpas.
This mountainous village presents a host of logistical difficulties and the two hundred residents currently have to walk over a mile to collect water from a spring.
Unfortunately feasibility studies conducted have concluded that the original pump proposed will be inadequate, so these funds have become seed money as we seek additional funding for the piping necessary to connect this village to the DOWASCO system.
The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Dix Pas Improvement committee together with the Former Attorney General.
 
Life Goes On - HIV/AIDS Project
A support network for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS has been funded to train a group of AIDS Caregivers in Dominica.
The “Hands On” training is proposed to start in May 2006 at a cost of EC$21,780.
 
Disability Needs Awareness Survey
In 2002, Lifeline Ministries received an offer of an ongoing supply of wheelchairs, crutches and other equipment for Dominica as a donation.
Using a wheelchair himself, the donor was prepared to negotiate free shipping and transportation in Dominica, to train technicians in the repair and maintenance of the equipment and to educate the disabled users themselves in the basic care of their mobility aids.