The Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the St. Maarten Development Fund (SMDF) has recently launched the Workforce Development Program (W4D), a program that offers free online courses until the end of the year via the e-learning website, Coursera. The courses range from high school level to Master degree level and are grouped in packaged...
The Victory Temple COGOP’s soup kitchen is the most recent program to benefit from a fruitful partnership between the SMDF and WIB. Most recently, the soup kitchen received a new 6-burner stove and refrigerator. These new appliances will support the kitchen’s weekly feeding activities where they cook and distribute warm meals to persons who find...
Since the start of its Buy1Give1 Masks for the Masses program in May 2020, the St. Maarten Development Fund (SMDF) has produced and distributed over one thousand five hundred facemasks throughout the Sint Maarten community. The initiative began as a volunteer initiative during the partial lockdown period whereby hobbyist and professional seamstresses and tailors were...
On June 8th 2020 the largest consumer and business bank of Sint Maarten, The Windward Islands Bank Ltd. (WIB), made a generous donation of NAF 110,000.00 to the Sint Maarten Development Foundation (SMDF) in support of COVID-19 food relief programs. The programs are aimed at providing food security to over 500 children and 550 senior citizens...
Recently, international health organizations have called for the use of barrier masks to complement protective hygiene measures and social distancing rules to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). In an effort to provide as many barrier masks to St. Maarten residents as possible, the St. Maarten Development Fund (SMDF) has launched their Masks...
