There is two drops off points:
• WIFOL Building Walter Nisbeth Road
• The St. Maarten Festival Village
Both locations are accessible as of Saturday, April 17 from 10 am to 7 pm daily. This drive is in collaboration with National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) SVG, This drive is also supported by the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA), Dutch side Firefighters association, WIFOL, and the Caribbean Unity Foundation, the Trade winds Cruise Club, K1 Brittannia Foundation, and Alicia stay Foundation. There will be boxes at all major supermarkets where nonperishable items can be dropped off.
The following is a list of relief items
Relief list:
by Bajan Reporter / April 16th, 2021
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Digicel Group, just revealed their donation of US$500,000 worth of much-needed items to support the urgent relief efforts in St. Vincent & the Grenadines caused by the Le Soufriere volcanic activity.
With thousands of people evacuated from the red zone and housed in shelters and significant ash fall resulting from the explosive eruptions of La Soufriere affecting the entire island, the situation is developing and deteriorating.
Leveraging its global reach and supply chains, Digicel will work with the Government of St. Vincent & the Grenadines to identify immediate needs – as well as procuring and shipping items identified as urgently needed in these early stages by the National Emergency Management Organisation.
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Geologist, Professor Richard Robertson has cautioned the Vincentian public to make preparations in anticipation of more activity from the La Soufriere volcano
Seismic activity at La Soufrière Volcano continued to follow the pattern established on Tuesday April 13, with bands of tremor about 14 hours apart separated by swarms of small, long-period earthquakes.
Professor Robertson says the team of Scientists are continuing to monitor the current pattern of explosions as they appear to be episodic with increasing intervals and less energy.
Professor Robertson says policy makers will have to begin to think creatively about the management of the volcano in going forward.
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Cable & Wireless charitable foundation activates relief efforts
C&W Communications, Team Grenada activate emergency relief for Team Flow and the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Social Share In the immediate aftermath of the first major eruption of La Soufrière [since 1979], Cable & Wireless Communications activated its emergency teams on the ground in St. Vincent and across the region to quickly respond to the needs of employees, their families, customers, and the broader community, a release said.
“Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W), parent company of Flow St. Vincent, stands in solidarity with the Government and the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (“SVG”) during this most difficult time in the islands’ history. We have been heartbroken to see the images of the disruption of the lives of the people caused by the volcanic eruption. We are committed to doing everything we can to provide support for the relief and recovery of the people