BackOmbudsman Gwendolien Mossel and her team started a Community Outreach Program during the month of March. The Bureau visited the various districts to seek out the concerns, grievances and complaints of the people as well as continuing to promote awareness on the role of the institution.
To achieve the objective of the program, the Ombudsman has solicited the assistance of the various community councils on the island, who were all recently invited to a meeting with the Ombudsman to be briefed about the program.
The respective district councils were requested to identify the most pressing/urgent cases of the less fortunate within their community where government action is required. Topics to be addressed included, but were not limited to: the elderly, single parent homes, the physically disabled, poverty, unhealthy living conditions etc.
Source: Office of the Ombudsman, Sint Maarten
