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The Kings and Queens

ST. VINCENT & The GRENADINES VOLCANO RELIEF AND RECOVERY

Substantial Relief
Response from Thursday, April 29, resulted in major flooding,
and proprietor of these locations for so
landslides and mudflows.
generously tolerating the constant
20-K1 Lions to The overwhelmingly generous and immediate
traffic and providing the space for
St. Vincent & the storing the large number of offerings. response from our Lions of Brooklyn and Queens
is a manifestation of our Kind and Loving Service,
Grenadines Donations, financial and in kind, came and powerfully highlights and emphasizes that
from every part of Brooklyn and
Queens - from Lions Clubs, individual “Where there’s a Need, there’s a Lion” is no emp-
Wow! District 20-K1 Lions, you Lions and other community organiza- ty statement. Well Done, K1!
rock! tions. Thank you to the following for
so generously responding: Afro Amer-
With the approval of DG Jacqueline ican Parents Educational Centers Inc.,
V. Phillips, on April 11, an appeal District 20-K1 clubs and entities -
went out to Lions of our district to Bedford Stuyvesant, Brookville, Car-
help those affected by the eruptions ibe, Central Brooklyn, Clarendon
of the La Soufriere volcano which Meadows, Clinton Hill, Crown
took place on April 9, 2021 on the Heights, District 20-K1 Diabetes Com-
main island of the Caribbean nation mittee, East Elmhurst Columbia, East
New York, Farragut, Hollis, Jefferson,
of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Kings County, Laurelton, Leaders,
And the response from our Lions? Little Neck Douglaston, Metropolis,
Massive. M-A-S-S-I-V-E! Mid Bedford Heights Lions Founda-
tion, Inc., Midwood, Rego Park Forest
As of June 21, the Lions of Brooklyn Hills, Richmond Hill, Rising Stars, St.
and Queens have packed and Albans, Springfield Gardens, Starrett
shipped eighteen (18) commercial City Spring Creek, Stuy Park, Transi-
bins and twenty-five (25) jumbo tion, Winthrop, Winthrop Leo Club,
barrels. Most of us know what a Woodside Interamerican – Order of
jumbo barrel looks like. How about a Feather Faternity and United Negro
commercial bin? That measures Improvement Association. Financial
48”X40”X34.” Yea, huge!
donations to help cover the considera-
In those containers was everything ble cost of shipping came from these
from soup to nuts – LITERALLY! Individual Lions: Adina Callender,
There were products for the home Antoinette Calliste-Owens, Beryl Bur-
and items for everyone from babies ris, Charles & Nancy McBride, Donna
to senior citizens. VDG Ingrid An- Budai, Dorothy Providence, Ernestine
drews-Campbell coordinated the Harrison, Evelyn Frias, Faye Carter,
collection and packing of donations Fern Rashkover, Jean Providence,
that included water, non-perishable Joan Bryan, Jocelyn Matheson, John
foods, cleaning products, face masks Duane, Joice Knuckles, Jose Santiago,
and shields, hand sanitizer, gloves, Melissa Rivera-Torres, Sandra Lee
toiletries, feminine personal products Daniel, Susana Castro and TyEast
and underwear, children’s under- Bobb.
wear, diapers (baby & adult), baby Volcanic lava flow on the northern
formula and clothes, bath towels and third of the island has destroyed every-
wash cloths, bed sheets, wireless thing in its path – crops, animals,
glucose monitoring kits, and tarps.
homes – leading to a water shortage.
For weeks, the collection locations at Two of the island’s five hospitals had
112-06 Sutphin Boulevard in Queens to be evacuated and more than 20,000
and 747 E. 101 Street and 3405 Clar- people were displaced from their
endon Road in Brooklyn looked like homes in the “Red Zone” to the south-
warehouses. The door bells were ern end of the island or even to neigh-
ringing late into several nights as our boring islands such as St. Lucia or
Lions, and other community organi- Barbados. To compound the hardships
zations, dropped off their generous that the
donations. District 20-K1 whole- people of St. Vincent & the Grena-
heartedly thanks the homeowners dines are facing, heavy rainfall on

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