Leandra Cho-Ricketts, Executive Director, Fund for Sustainable Future
"We provided four regular grants and four community grants and those four regular grants are for well-established organizations and they were medium-sized or about 150,000 roughly up to 150,000 and one large one which was around 340 or 57,000 thereabout and then we had four community grants. For the first time we're giving support to community groups that may not have the full capacity to manage projects or do the financial aspects or management of that, so we've created community grants. it's a cap of 75,000 that allows them to still be able to do actions on the ground and in this case we had two fishers organization, so they're helping them to build more sustainable practices and build capacity for fisheries management.

"We had animation studio that's led by youth that they're developing marine awareness animation as a part of informing and educating the legions about the importance of their marine environment and how to sustainably use that and then a community group in the north three lagoons, they're looking at community management of the reserve which is the riparian reserve or the coastline reserve right. And so what the fund is doing is providing that financial support to them while they do activities on the ground. So we manage the finances and let it flow to them they don't actually receive a manager."