Caribbean Hurricane relief
East End Grand Bahamas
Weeks after Hurricane Dorian wiped out entire neighborhoods, East Grand Bahama still looks like a war zone. Our team connected with Rev. Freddie Laing Pastor of St. Matthew Baptist Church in Pelican Point an area totally destroyed by hurricane Dorian.
We visitied his once beautiful church to see ruins and rubble, trees uprooted, electricity poles snapped like toothpicks!
He took us to his family home, racked and ruined by winds and storm surges. He showed us a picture of his father, water stained but still showing a smiling, strong, man of God.
He found his Bible, well worn from reading now ruined by water damage. He appealed to us for Bibles and UCT is working on shipping a container from Barbados with Bibles and Love Package Bible Studies, donated by Mount Zion's Mission Barbados Foursquare church, for the people of the Bahamas.
We were able to donate enough Sawyer PointOne Water Community Filtration Systems for all the Baptist churches in Grand Bahamas, thanks to donations from Chefette in Barbados.
SAWYER WATER FILTRATION DISTRIBUTION in the Bahamas
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Sawyer PointOne Water Filtration Systemdonated to churches in Bahamas
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Sawyer PointOne Water Filtration Systemdonated to the Bahamas Feeding Network
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Sawyer PointOne Water Filtration System for the Bahamas Community Watch
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Hurricane Dorian impacts the Bahamas
UNITED CARIBBEAN RELIEF
United Caribbean Relief a Barbados registered charity has been helping in small ways with Disaster Relief starting in Grenada following Hurricane Ivan in 2004, when we were the first on the ground in Carriacou with fishing boats full of immediate relief supplies, walking them into the north of Grenada until the ‘big boys’ could arrive from America, thus United Caribbean Trust was birthed.
In 2010 I arrived in Haiti one day prior to the earthquake keeping me there for months and consequently we were able to send up 4 containers from Barbados taking months to distribute into the remote tent cities.
Again in 2017 we were the first container to leave Barbados for Antigua for the people of Barbuda following Hurricane Irma only to turn around thanks to generous donation and make six mission trips to Dominica following hurricane Maria.
As in the case of Dominica our main and initial response to Bahamas has been the Sawyer PointOne Community Water Filtration System, the Sawyer Point One Filter is the fastest, easiest and most cost efficient way to get up to 500 gallons of potable water a day.
Our Church package will also include Love Package Bible Studies donated by Mount Zion’s Mission Barbados Foursquare Church.
United Caribbean Trust sponsored the shipping of a 40 foot container shipped to Freeport, our team travelled to Grand Bahamas to assist with distribution.
Our second effort is to introduce a children's Post Traumatic Stress Program, this was birthed in Dominica following hurricane Maria and is called Healing the Hurting Heart a 12 week children’s curriculum. Following the initial trip I will be returning with this program to train teachers and Youth Leaders to implement the curriculum and assist them in starting in various schools, if open and the same churches we helped earlier with the Filtration System.
If there are any areas that you feel you may be interested in helping with we are seeking donations for various things including transportation costs. Thanking you for your heart to help.
