PUC staff rewarded for PCB-free environment training |20 August 2013

Technicians, engineers and other staff of the Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) who took part in a two- week training on management of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have received their certificates.

On behalf of the Lions Club Paradise of Seychelles, Dr Pugazhendi Murugaiyan said they are very happy to have been part of this project and that the collaboration will develop further with additional works with the UNDP and other agencies.

Present at the certificate presentation ceremony held last Friday was Nelson Manda, training facilitator from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Unitar) who offered his expertise to the PUC staff free of charge.  

Mr Manda also presented the findings of their two-week training.

One of the participants also thanked all who had made it possible for the training to take place.

He noted that all together they have collected 176 samples in the past 10 days and this is a great start for Seychelles’ move towards a PCB free environment.

Flavien Joubert, director general for policy, wild life enforcement permit in the Ministry of Environment  and Energy, was also presented with a certificate for all the efforts he put in to see the fulfillment of the project.