The nearest village to 3 rivers is called Grand Fond, and is home to around 1,000 people. All of our workers are from this village, except for one who comes from the nearest village in the other direction, Petite Soufriere. This is in keeping with our environmental policy.
As well as working closely with the local village councils to offer a number of community based activities for our guests, we are also involved in various community activities.
· The local school is setting up a new library for the village, using books supplied from one of our guests. Staff from 3 Rivers installed all the electricity and donated the parts for the work carried out.
· We have bought a washing machine for a lady in the village and she now has her own laundry business. As well as doing the laundry for us and our guests, she is also able to provide a service for the villagers.
· We have sponsored the village cricket team by providing them with a large amount of new equipment.
· We have sponsored one of the village bands, The Blazing Squad, by helping towards the cost of a new keyboard which they greatly need, and by showcasing them occasionally here at 3 Rivers.
· We have hosted environmentally educational school visits for a few of the island's schools and continue to offer this free service to all schools in Dominica. We also offer this service to all interested parties, and all of our staff are fully trained in all of our environmental policies.
· We ran an art competition in Grand Fond School to design our roadside banners. The four winners won some art equipment and a weekend at 3 Rivers, during which time we held an art workshop and transferred their paper designs onto the large roadside banners which can be seen today around Dominica. We donated some art equipment to the school in order to run the competition.

THE ROSALIE TURTLE INITIATIVE - ROSTI

Widecast, an organization concerned with the conservation of Caribbean turtles, has set up a new initiative on our local beach at Rosalie, a popular nesting ground for a variety of sea turtles. They are monitoring the turtles and protecting them from hunters. Both ourselves and Widecast are attempting to educate the hunters about the need for turtle protection, and are complimenting this education by offering them work as turtle guides for tourists instead of hunting, so providing them with an alternative income to help persuade the to stop the hunting. We also help raise money to fund the initiative by selling t-shirts and trinkets. There is educational literature both in the cottages and the restaurant about the initiative.

COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS

If you would like to know more about any of our environmental policies and practices, please feel free to contact us any time, and we will always be more than happy to help.
We have a small library in our bar, which contains a whole host of useful information and technical details about all of our systems, and other systems which we do not yet use.