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Vol. 32, Issue 18 BROOKLYN EDITION Apr. 30-May 6, 2021
By Nelson A. King
As St. Vincent and the Grenadines’
volcano relief in the United
States enters its third week,
the Brooklyn-based SVG Relief
USA, Inc. says it’s proceeding
“full speed ahead” with relief
efforts.
Chairperson Verna Arthur
told Caribbean Life on April 27
that, to date, the umbrella relief
group has shipped nine commercial
bins and two 40-foot containers
of relief supplies to St.
Vincent and the Grenadines.
“Donations are still pouring
in at a rapid pace, and with tons
of love,” she said, disclosing that
the principal relief base, the recreational
room at the Friends
of Crown Heights on Prospect
Place in Brooklyn, is “packed
from every corner.”
“The yard also has a very large
quantity of supplies,” Arthur
added. “We are hoping for a quick
turn-around of these already
packed items in order to make
room for other supplies.”
She said the required list of
items is “very fluid,” stating that
the latest revised list comprises,
among other things, power
washers, shovel, garden hoses,
wheelchairs and portable toilets.
Arthur said persons can also
make financial contributions via
Zelle to SVG Relief USA, Inc,
at: svgrelief784@gmail.com; or
via check, payable to: SVG Relief
USA, Inc. and mail to 1654 Troy
Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11234.
“The positive energy, which
continues to permeate our relief
site at Friends of Crown Heights,
is astounding: Vincentians,
Americans and our Caribbean
brothers and sisters ‘under one
roof’ making this relief effort
happen,” Arthur said.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines’
United States Consul
General Howie Prince told Caribbean
Life Wednesday morning
that the attention is now shifted
primarily to collecting specific
times, including 200 portable toilets
and five sanitation trucks,
which are needed in St. Vincent
and the Grenadines.
SVG Relief, USA, Inc. sorts relief supplies with volunteers.
Photo by Nelson A. King
CB 17
looks to
aid ailing
Vincentians
By Nelson A. King
Brooklyn Community
Board 17, on April 21, passed
a resolution supporting a
call from Caribbean American
Congresswoman Yvette
D. Clarke urging the Biden
administration to grant
Temporary Protected Status
(TPS) to Vincentians in the
red zone of the explosive La
Soufrière volcano.
Clarke — the daughter of
Jamaican immigrants, who
represents the predominantly
Caribbean 9th Congressional
District in Brooklyn — first
raised the issue last weekend
after visiting a volcano
relief center, at the Friends
of Crown Heights Educational
Center in Brooklyn, run
by the Brooklyn-based SVG
Relief Committee, USA.
“I’m happy to report that
a resolution to grant citizens
of St. Vincent and the
Grenadines Temporary Protective
Status, because of
the destruction, devastation
and dislocation caused by
the eruption of La Soufriere
volcano was approved, with
no opposition,” Victor Jordan,
first vice chairperson of
Community Board 17 which
encompasses East Flatbush
and parts of Flatbush in
Brooklyn, told Caribbean Life
on Thursday, April 29.
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RELIEF
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