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| DISASTER in the Caribbean, Island State of GRENADA
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| Your Help Needed Urgently |
Donations may be delivered to the
| Embassy of Grenada, Avenida Norte 2, Los Quinta 330, Los Naranajos, El Cafetal, Caracas |
| Or contact us for delivery points in other cities |
| Contact Phone: (0212) 9855626 |
| Fax: (0212) 985 6391 |
Website
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| Please make your donation generous. |
IDonations may be made | Banco Provincial |
Account Type | Savings Account |
Account Name | GRENADA2004 |
Account Number | 0108 0231 87 0100103113 |
IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENTS
| Items to suit all donor's budgets! |
Household
| Food, water Cookers - gas |
| Boots for working. Sizes from 8 to 12 |
| Bedding: Beds, sheets, cots, folding cots, mattresses |
| Personal hygiene kits: tooth brushes, toothpaste, soap, small bandages, pain relievers, etc |
| Disinfectants |
| First aid kits |
| Kitchen utensils |
Housing
| Tarpaulin 20’ x 20’ Building materials: board, zinc sheeting, cement, steel, lead head nails, "Z" nails, gangnail plates, angle bracing |
| Prefabricated housing |
Electricity
| Generators 6000KVA 220Volts |
Infrastructure
| Road clearing equipment: chain saws, curved hand-saws for tree-cutting
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| Garbage removal trucks |
Health
| Mobile Clinics |
| Last Hurricane damage was in 1955 |
| On September 7th 2004 Hurricane IVAN blasted its way, at 250 km/hour across this tiny independent state causing devastation, during the night, throughout Grenada on an unprecedented scale. |
| Please make your donation generous. |
| 90% of the Houses very badly damaged, some totally obliterated.
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| The Governor General's Residence totally destroyed, having survived all previous storms. Debris from the building hurled across the yard. The Prime Minister's Official Residence was also destroyed. |  |
Chaos in a normally very sheltered harbour. |  |
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|  |  The stand, at Queens Park Stadium - the pride and joy of Grenadian Cricket - is now unusable and will need to be re-constructed. |
| The Radio Station  Transmissions were impossible for several days... |  |
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| Damage to Schools is very severe in some cases, all are damaged. |
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| The Presbyterian Church and others are now open to the heavens... Please help to make them places of worship again...  |  |
The Cost to Repair/Replace/Reactivate ? A reliable authority estimates this at hundreds of millions of dollars.
Housing | |
Schools | |
Hospitals and Clinics, Medicines and Medical Equipment | |
Public Buildings and Sporting Facilities | |
Commercial buildings | |
Roads and foreshore | |
Electricity | |
Communications | |
Airport | |
Harbour Facilities | |
Agriculture |
| Please make your pledge today and advise us so that we may update this page. |
Countries which have pledged to make donations
Barbados | ||
Britain | ||
Dominican Republic | ||
European Union | ||
Saint Lucia | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | ||
United States of America | ||
Venezuela |
(Please advise us of new and accurate information so we can update this.)
Organizations which have pledged to make donations
| The Red Cross (USA) | |||
| The Red Cross (Britain) | |||
| PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) | |||
| UNICEF )
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