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Poor Relief Department
Please note: The Poor Relief
Department is presently being reorganized, with some services being
transferred to Central Government. The infirmary will
remain with the department. More details to be provided.
To provide a stable, physical and spiritual
environment for the best care of the poor, destitute, and elderly
indigent, by optimizing the resources of the state and voluntary
sectors.
The Poor Relief Department is the social
services office of the local government and is funded by a grant
from central government. Poor
Relief is assistance granted to residents of a parish after proving
they are wholly destitute and unable to work or earn their means of
subsistence, due to their mental or physical condition.
Temporary relief is also afforded to people who are made
destitute as a result of fire, flood, hurricane or drought via the disaster relief department.
Many services are also offered to persons on a temporary
basis; please see below for more information.
The primary objectives of the programme are as follows:
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To provide residential facilities to house persons
targeted by the programme (infirmary);
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to provide proper nutrition, medical care and
transportation, when necessary, to program beneficiaries;
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To offer financial and in-kind assistance through the
distribution of weekly doles and food stamps;
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To secure the
dignity and self-respect of programme beneficiaries, whenever
and wherever possible.
 The poor relief programme has been divided into
two areas of concentration: Out-door
Poor and In-door Poor. The
Out-door Poor programme assists persons who may be on the street or
who may have a residence but are finding it quite difficult to make
ends meet.
This programme includes City Spirit, an outreach
center located at 2 Lawrence Lane (corner of Church and Orange
Street) in the downtown core. The
In-door Poor programme is operated from within the Parish Infirmary.
It caters primarily to the elderly, however, the
beneficiaries are classified as those people who are in need of
temporary shelter and nutrition.
Donations
are critical to the functioning of this department.
We welcome all monetary and in-kind donations, particularly
clothing, non-perishable food and hygiene items such as soap.
Please contact us at 952-5500-2 to discuss how you or your
organization can contribute to ease the suffering of our poor and
dispossessed.
Referrals
The Poor Relief Office is in contact with other
governmental and non-governmental agencies.
Persons are often referred to these agencies after
investigations and evaluation are carried out.
We also receive clients referred from other agencies.
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