Anse Royale inhabitants, businesses pitch in to put up new playground |10 May 2005

The new playground will be located at a newly cleared site between the Anse Royale Community Centre and the nearest farm alongside the Les Cannelles Road.

Saturday May 7 a group of inhabitants as well as some businesses met at this newly cleared site where they assisted the numerous trucks and excavator that had been readily lent to the project by some benevolent businesses to cart away debris that had been cleared from the site.

It took the team the whole day from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. to complete the task.
The new playground will replace the existing one located opposite the Seychelles Polytechnic.

Twenty-four years after its creation the existing playground not only needs serious renovation but also relocation to make way for a proposed redevelopment of the Anse Royale Regional Hospital, according to the district’s MNA, Barry Faure.

The new playground, an initiative of MNA Faure, has received serious backing by Mr Willy Liebe, who is sponsoring all the equipment that the new facility will require.  However, costs of site clearing, site preparation, fencing and building of infrastructure is to be sourced from the community with possible Government assistance to support this community initiative, says MNA Faure.

According to Mr Faure the project is inspired on the community approach principle used to build the first district playground when parents, youth and other philanthropic bodies from the community worked together to complete the project under the leadership of the then district authorities in 1981.

The new playground, which will primarily benefit the children of the district, is to be completed for official opening by December 2005, says Mr Faure. 

Among the businesses that provided assistance on Saturday were José Pool’s Farm, Jacques Matombe’s Farm, Edgar Morel’s Truck, Jules Hoareau’s Truck, SWAC and UCPS.

Numerous other businesses with operations or bases at Anse Royale have already pledged support for the project, adds Mr Faure.