How to Help
Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique Recover from Hurricane Ivan
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The
webmaster of LCM has received numerous personal e·mails and notes in our Visitors' Journal
indicating that they would like to help in some way. On September 14, 2004, I
spoke by phone with Ms. Bernadette Lendore Sylvester, the Permanent Secretary and Coordinator
for Disaster Preparedness for Carriacou and Petit Martinique (i.e. PM).
She graciously supplied most of the following information. I also met personally
with her on Thursday, September 23, 2004 and received more information that
enabled me to further update this page...
How to specifically provide aid
and help to the people of Carriacou and Petit Martinique
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Contact Information for
Individuals and Organizations That Desire to Specifically Help the People of Carriacou in the
aftermath of Hurricane Ivan:
Ms.
Bernadette Lendore Sylvester
Permanent Secretary and
Coordinator for Disaster
Preparedness for Carriacou and Petit Martinique
Telephone numbers:
Ministry of Carriacou Office Numbers:
Office Voice 1-473-443-6026
Office Voice 1-473-443-6028
Office Fax
1-473-443-6040
Home number: 1-473-443-7591
E·mail Address:
sylvesterbernadette@hotmail.com |
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Ms. Sylvester has informed me that the most needed
items to help the people of Carriacou right now are: (This list is updated
regularly as I am provided more details and information by Ms. Sylvester.)
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Tents
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Tarpaulins
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Food stuffs
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Cots
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Bedding (mattresses, pillows, etc)
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Building supplies (Lumber, galvanized roofing,
etc.)
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Hybrid Seeds so that the people
here can grow their own food. (The type of seeds that would grow in the
Caribbean and produce fast crops. Vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, beans,
corn, ochre, cucumber, watermelon, pumpkin, onion, etc. The planting season is
now in full swing and seeds are needed immediately.)
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School supplies and materials (class
books, pens & pencils, paper. etc. Many families had just picked up their
school books and other supplies the day before the storm hit. After many lost
their roofs or portions of their roofs, or worse, the school materials were damaged
by water or blown away completely. Schools on Carriacou resumed normal classes
this past Monday, September 20, 2004. Consequently, this is also a pressing
and immediate need.)
Special Account Set up by the Government of Grenada
to receive funds to specifically help Carriacou and
Petit Martinique with disaster recovery
I attended another meeting on Saturday,
September 25, 2004, at the Ministry of Carriacou Office with the Honorable
Elvin Nimrod, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Grenada,
and also with Ms. Sylvester.
Click
here to learn more the meeting of September 25, 2004 . At that meeting -- among other things -- I was
told of a special account that has been set up with a bank here on Carriacou
to receive funds from all over the world. That information is as follows:
National Commercial Bank Grenada Ltd., (NCB)
Account Number: 32005349
S.W.I.F.T. Number NCBGGDGD
Carriacou Branch
Hillsborough PO
Hillsborough, Carriacou
Grenada, West Indies
Tel: 1-473-443-7289 or 1-473-443-7896
National Commercial Bank Grenada Ltd. at NCB House
Grand Anse,
P.O. Box 857
St. George's, Grenada
Tel: 1-473-444-2265
NOTE: For your convenience and expediting funds, the
National Commercial Bank Grenada Ltd. has many corresponding banks in
various countries around the world through which you can make deposits. Make
sure that you designate them for the National Commercial Bank Grenada Ltd.
and use Account Number 32005349 and S.W.I.F.T. Number NCBGGDGD.
If the bank you use asks for a "Correspondent Bank" of the National
Commercial Bank Grenada (NCB) in your country, use the following depending
upon your country:
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United States of American
Bank of America
100 Southeast, 2nd Street
31st Floor
Miami, FL. 33131
USA
ABA # 066007681
TLX # 6733602
NCB's Account # 1901975836
S.W.I.F.T # BOFAUS3M
Bank of New York
48 Wall Street
New York, NY 10286
USA
ABA # 021000018
NCB's Account # 8900086351
S.W.I.F.T # IRVTUS3N
Antigua
Antigua Commercial Bank
PO Box 95
St. John's
Antigua
NCB's Account # 102 00 0007
S.W.I.F.T # ANCBAGAG
Barbados
Barbados National Bank
Commercial Division
28 Broad Street
Bridgetown
Barbados
NCB's Account # 02-29-0032
S.W.I.F.T # BNBABBBB
Dominica
National Commercial Bank of Dominica
64 Hi Isborough Street
Roseau
Dominica
NCB's Account # 115000574
S.W.I.F.T # NCDMDMDM
England
Lloyds TSB Bank Plc
Overseas Division
6 Eastcheap
London EC3P 3AB
England
NCB's Account #s 01141024 and 11465007 US
SORT CODE 30-96-34
S.W.I.F.T # LOYDGB2LIOC
France
Credit Lyonnias
07 Rue Charles Paradinas
92583 Clichy Cedex
France
NCB's Account # 058850T
S.W.I.F.T # CRLYFPP
Germany
Commerzbank, A.G.
Neue Mainzer, Str. 32-36
Post Fach 2534
Frankfurt (Main) 1
Germany
NCB's Account # 400 871259800
S.W.I.F.T # COBADEFF
Guyana
National Bank of Industry and Commerce
38-40 Water Street
Georgetown
Guyana
NCB's Account # 653-583-5
S.W.I.F.T # NBICGYGG
Grenada Post Office resumes
operations
As of Monday, September 27, 2004 the Grenada postal system (Grenada Postal
Corporation) is sending and receiving mail, packages, and parcels to
and from all parts of the world.
How to help those on the
mainland of Grenada
the People on on the
Mainland of Grenada are in Desperate need of all types of aid and help!
Click here to see photos of the mainland of Grenada on CDERA's official website
Use the following
contact information to help the people on the mainland:
Contact:
Silvan McIntyer
Coordinator
for NERO (National
Emergency Relief Organization)
Website:
http://www.spiceisle.com/nero/
(Only Number Available
and Working at this time is his cell phones) 1-473-405-1822 or 1-473-405-1823
NOTE: The people of Grenada need almost everything imaginable in addition to the
items needed for those on Carriacou and Petit Martinique as listed above. Many
on the mainland escaped Hurricane Ivan with only their lives. For more specific
needs see the CDERA's (Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency)
recommendations on its website. Details immediately following.)
Other contact
information:
Donovan Gentles
(Barbados)
Preparedness & Response Manager For CDERA
Telephone numbers: 1-246-268-0299 or 1-246-425-0386, Fax 1-246-425-8854.
CDERA (Caribbean Disaster
Emergency Response Agency). Website
http://www.cdera.org/
This excellent website
provides abundant information on the current status of damage, material needs,
and how to help the people of Grenada and other Caribbean nations in the wake of
Hurricane Ivan and other disasters.
They provide a
Preliminary
Needs List,
Guidelines for Appropriate
International Disaster Donations, and a
Detailed Food Needs List that will help equip people and organizations with
the knowledge they need to truly help the people of Grenada survive and recover
from this disaster.
For those who wish to
Specifically help Windward Bible Church
recover from Hurricane damages
Our meeting place suffer
the loss of shingles from the roof of our meeting place.
(Click here to see.) We need some new plywood and galvanized roofing
to replace it right away. We cannot use the building until these repairs have
been made.
If you wish to help in this area,
please contact me, Walter Robinson II, the webmaster of LCM, by clicking on this
link: "Desire
to Help Windward Bible Church."
Lord willing, I will
update this page with more contact information as it is passed on to me. Thanks
for your consideration and prayers for the people of Grenada and its smaller
island states of Carriacou and Petit Martinique.
Walter Robinson II
Pastor of Windward Bible Church
and Webmaster of LCM
NOTE:
Please tell any that you contact that you got your contact information through
the "Last Chance Ministries" or "Windward Bible Church" websites.
This will let your contact know that you are somewhat better equipped with
information on what is needed.
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