$225,000 in home repair and disaster assistance grants distributed

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MPS­DFS) has pro­vid­ed more than $200,000 in Home Re­pair and Dis­as­ter Gen­er­al As­sis­tance Grants to sup­port vul­ner­a­ble house­holds in the Princes Town re­gion.

On Wednes­day (March 18, 2026), a to­tal of thir­teen house­holds, com­pris­ing 40 ben­e­fi­cia­ries, re­ceived a com­bined $224,928 in fi­nan­cial aid through the Na­tion­al So­cial De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (NS­DP).

Eleven house­holds were award­ed Home Re­pair Grants, ben­e­fit­ing 31 in­di­vid­u­als, with a to­tal of $210,753 dis­trib­uted. Two house­holds re­ceived Dis­as­ter Gen­er­al As­sis­tance Grants, sup­port­ing nine ben­e­fi­cia­ries, val­ued at $14,175.

The ini­tia­tive aims to help fam­i­lies re­pair and im­prove the safe­ty and func­tion­al­i­ty of their homes.

Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, reaf­firmed the Min­istry’s com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing that no cit­i­zen is left be­hind. She said the Min­istry con­tin­ues to en­gage with com­mu­ni­ties dai­ly, iden­ti­fy­ing needs and re­spond­ing, “with pur­pose, com­pas­sion, and ur­gency.”

Min­is­ter Mo­hit added that the NS­DP, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with lo­cal stake­hold­ers, fo­cus­es on sup­port­ing the most vul­ner­a­ble through re­forms, ex­pand­ed out­reach, and pre­ven­tive mea­sures to re­duce long-term vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty.

“This is about cre­at­ing sus­tain­able path­ways for fam­i­lies, en­sur­ing that sup­port to­day leads to greater sta­bil­i­ty and in­de­pen­dence to­mor­row,” she said.

The Min­istry said it con­tin­ues to pri­ori­tise so­cial pro­tec­tion pro­grammes de­signed to ease im­me­di­ate hard­ship while fos­ter­ing long-term re­silience, sta­bil­i­ty, and em­pow­er­ment for cit­i­zens across Trinidad and To­ba­go.