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Coastal Protection

Finance minister Ahmed Munawar (L) and Embassy of Netherlands's deputy head of mission Eva Woersem sign and exchange agreement for RVO to grant USD 10.7 million for the Fuvahmulah coastal protection project.

Netherlands grants USD10.7 mln for Fuvahmulah coastal protection

By Maldives Times 1 min read

Finance minister Ahmed Munawar (L) and Embassy of Netherlands’s deputy head of mission Eva Woersem sign and exchange agreement for RVO to grant USD 10.7 million for the Fuvahmulah coastal protection project. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has granted the southern island of Fuvahmulah received USD 10.7 million for its coastal protection project. […]

Volunteers of the OneFuvahmulah movement pictured during a beach clean-up. PHOTO/ONEFUVAHMULAH

Campaign for coastal protection takes Fuvahmulah by storm

By Maldives Times 2 min read

Volunteers of the OneFuvahmulah movement pictured during a beach clean-up. PHOTO/ONEFUVAHMULAH A special campaign has been launched in the southern island of Fuvahmulah to combat erosion and strengthen coastal protection. Organised by the “OneFuvahmulah” movement, the Save Fuvahmulah campaign aims to speed up the plans to construct revetments on the eastern coast of the single-atoll […]