 On Wednesday, September 13, the first phase of the Palmist Roofing Project commenced. This initiative, spearheaded by the Member of Parliament for Sufra, promises multiple benefits to the community, ranging from employment opportunities for local youth to improved housing conditions for residents. The contractor on the project, Darryl Thomas, says this initiative was overdue and has brought renewed hope to the community of Palmist. So basically what we're doing is changing the old galvanising list for the structures in Palmist. We have a few subcontractors, we started today, today Wednesday, so it will probably last like two weeks max, probably 82 houses, changing galvanise, some bad posts, two by fours, whatever the people wants to be changed on their houses. Yeah, that's basically it. Alright, right now there we have four groups, basically each group has like six workers employed, so unless you have something good going on in the community, unless you have guys engaged in young fellows in the community, engaged in something doing, instead of sitting and staying idle. I think it's a good initiative for the district, I can say that the people on Palmist needed that. Basically now you can see when it's raining, Palmist go down to put the air outside or put blocks on the roofs or anything. So I guess it's a good initiative moving forward when they find the Labour Party and the district rep. As the roofs and posts of these houses are replaced, the project is expected to not only provide much needed jobs but also contributes to the overall beautification and modernisation of the community. Member of Parliament for Sufra for Sejaq Emma Hippolit expressed her commitment to improving the lives of all her constituents. It's really rainy season, people are coming to my constituency saying they need assistance to repair this, that and the other. I felt I just needed to do it as a home and as well after the heavy storm, the block that is covered if asbestos, what I'll call the Blackstone Block, maybe one or two units they got damaged. So again, that really caused us to act urgently. And maybe even the next two weeks what we're going to do is to focus on these two of the project which is the removal, the safe removal of all asbestos, not only those that are damaged, all asbestos in the Blackstone Block and replace them with completely new things. The project has been met with enthusiasm from the local population. The project is also expected to raise the standard of living for palmist residents ensuring safer and more comfortable housing. One resident Joseph Valens Abel expressed immense gratitude for the project. We try and we best to put that in good condition because the way it was, the process, it wasn't good at all, at all, at all. Now we have the priority to make it right. So we try and we best to make it the right way and we thank the minister, we thank she a lot for she to get this work to be going today. Which means everybody appreciated, young and old. The young one appreciate it as well, they get in their days work to be done. They're old ones, they have a proper shelter now, they can't get wet. Which best we want? We don't want nothing else again, we're good to go. As work on the roofing project continues, residents say they are excited to see what other initiatives are in the pipeline. From Sufra FM, I am Jeanif Gonzaga.