3.8.4 Successes to date The newspaper has achieved the following: (i) it has made a concerted effort to appoint local residents in every facet from the communities it serves; (ii) it makes use of locally based business to provide office furniture, computers and most other equipment and services; (iii) several local residents and professionals make regular contributions to the paper by writing columns and providing news; (iv) positive feedback is received from local police, schools, local councilors and businesses on the quality of content and layout; (v) it has a regular monthly feature called "Straat Praat" where it regularly interviews residents on the streets and features their comments in the monthly publication; and (vi) two ex-Atlantis residents in media, now living in Europe and Dubai respectively, availed their skills to become involved with some of the online facets and writing for the paper.