The Vincy Friendly workbook and video were produced with funding from the European Union and launched officially on the 20th June, 2013.

The educational tool provides tourism material specific to St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The tool covers topics from what is tourism, who is a tourist, who is a visitor to taking care of the environment.

The tool consists of one (1) workbook and two (2) video modules to accompany the workbook. Student’s ages 8-11 years are expected to use the Vincy Friendly tourism education tool and it is envisaged that this will serve as a good foundation for further tourism education at the secondary level.

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) awarded a grant of 4 million EURO for a project titled “Eastern Caribbean Marine Managed Areas Network” (ECMMAN) to be implemented by The Nature Conservancy (TNC).

The project is being implemented across the six (6) OECS countries, namely: St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. Locally the project held under the theme “This is who we are: our marine life, it’s a beautiful thing”, was launched in 2013 and will run until 2017.

All six (6) participating countries received seed funding of US$10,000 to design and implement individual country campaigns and competed regionally for additional resources (which includes cash prizes) to assist in further implementation of campaign activities after the initial six (6) months campaign.

Issues project seeks to address:

• Unsustainable use of resources.
• Pollution.
• Lack of awareness of the value of marine resources.

Goals:

• Goal 1: Connect with schools, stakeholders, hoteliers with the marine resources and their values.
• Goal 2: Protect and conserve our marine areas by encouraging positive actions and attitudes through sustainable use
• Goal 2: Raise awareness levels on the importance of the marine protected areas and their benefits to our people.