Disaster Aid for Cuba

Disaster Aid to Cuba:

It is bad when a disaster strikes anywhere, but when it strikes people that have nothing to start with and their neighbours can't help either because they don't have much of anything to give, then it is a real disaster. On their own it will take years to recuperate.

About 14,000 homes were completely destroyed, and 200,000 homes damaged in the Santiago De Cuba and Holguin area during hurricane Sandy.

A container is going to be send there in December. If you are able to help out, we will be collecting the following items:

-Clothes and shoes in clean, good condition

-Kitchen materials of all types, small kitchen appliances, bed sheets, towels, pillows, mattresses (new or very good condition)

-Radio, CD players

-Soap, shampoo, detergent

-Toothbrushes and toothpaste

-personal care and hygiene products

-Tools (manual & electric)

-new building materials (metal roofing, lumber, doors and fasteners)Maybe you can contact your supplier of roofing steel if they have something to give, if you have roofing steel, we need to include nails or screws also because they are not available either in Cuba.

-Duct tape and other fastening materials

-Waterproof tarps

-Dry food in original packaging

-Vitamins

-Garbage bags

-Small lamps and other related household products, emergency kits. Please contact us and we can arrange to have these items picked up or give you a drop off point.  

 Peter Stam 519-532-2181 or peter@mankar.ca