Christ­mas came ear­ly for 53-year-old Wayne Mar­shall who suf­fers from os­teo-arthri­tis. Un­able to move around his one-room home on Richard­son Lane, Laven­tille, Mar­shall was re­lieved when Cepep work­ers be­gan as­sist­ing him. Once known as the "souse man," that in­come is no more be­cause of his ill­ness. How­ev­er, Mar­shall smiled on Fri­day and said that God was still good re­gard­less of his cir­cum­stance. The work­ers from the East Dry Riv­er De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd, which is em­ployed by the Cepep Com­pa­ny Ltd, have been cut­ting the tall grass around his home which caused cen­tipedes to crawl in­to the small room. The area had be­come an eye­sore for the res­i­dents for quite some time, as Mar­shall was un­able to have it main­tained.

In their spare time, some of the fe­male work­ers have even tak­en up cook­ing and clean­ing for Mar­shall for the last month and a half. They even bought him Christ­mas lights and they are hop­ing that some­one will do­nate crutch­es to him. What could have been a tear-filled sto­ry has been turned in­to a ray of hope be­cause of the Cepep work­ers, who, while en­hanc­ing the en­vi­ron­ment, tru­ly rep­re­sent a com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven spir­it, which is one of the com­pa­ny's core val­ues. Mar­shall called these fe­male work­ers "Sis­ters in Arms" as he said they were do­ing some­thing ex­tra­or­di­nary.