St Kitts – Week 1&2 Because of our work with the head of education in Dominica, doing teacher training debriefing in the northern areas of the island, the Ross University of Medicine requested if three K1 Britannia volunteer trauma counsellors would be available to do debriefing sessions for the faculty and staff (along with their […]
As we continue the rebuilding phase, we visited various businesses on the island in search for items and materials needed to rebuild the foster homes, vulnerable institutions, afternoon schools and daycares. For the specific institutions that we are helping, we have a list of specific materials and items that need to be donated either locally […]
We continued our work on the content and interviews for the international media by going through all footage from the past two months since Hurricane Irma, as well as edit over 20 interviews we did last week. All footage and interviews were then sent to the media for positive stories about St. Maarten. Prime Distributors […]
Due to heavy rains, our K1 Britannia Foundation and Rapid Response volunteers had to postpone some of the projects on the first day of the week as a major landslide occurred overnight, leaving the main road blocked for the day. After the pass was cleared, we continued our 2-day teacher counselling sessions on the east […]
The K1 Britannia Foundation, alongside 3 other local organizations met with CC1, Buccaneer Beach Bar and Dominos to receive the funds raised during the “We Jammin’ Still” Benefit concert held on Sunday, Oct 22nd. Buccaneer Beach bar donated the monies raised mainly from Presidente beer sales and Domino’s Pizza donated 40% of their total sales […]
We continued working with the ministry of Education to host teacher training sessions in the North of Dominica. At the start of the week, we had 2 four-hour sessions from 9:30 to 1pm, targeting the last schools in the region. The training sessions created a forum where the teachers could feel comfortable sharing their experiences […]
At the beginning of the week, K1 Britannia Foundation was recipient to two local events. Tri-Sport held a classic ride and the funds raised from ticket sales were donated to the foundation along with shipments from AUC students such as tarpaulins, toiletries etc. K1 representatives were present to help during the event by handing out […]
At the first day of debriefing at the Roosevelt Douglas Primary school, we focused on enabling the teachers to receive trauma counseling and keys to work through their personal experiences. On the second day we focused on giving them the tools needed to help the children as they return to school. We were able to […]
We are now transitioning to help various vulnerable institutions get back on their feet. We are looking at more mid to long-term help and have begun this by doing assessments of each institution that we are working with in collaboration with other aid organizations to see what their long term needs are in terms of […]
At one of the shelters last week we met the crew from a boat called Diamant, who had come in from Grenada with food for the island. This week they returned with more supplies from Martinique and we assisted in making 50 individual care packages that contained food, NFI’s (non-food items) and other supplies, as […]
We got a request for water at the various pre-schools on the island. We were able to collect and deliver 1160 5L bottles to the St. Maarten Early Childhood Development Association for distribution amongst 30 preschools on the island. Windward Roads donated their truck and time to assist us in the deliveries of the water […]
The last few days we’ve been working with IOM to assist in visiting each of the 179 shelters on the island, and assess the current state of each of the shelters. During these visits we were able to encourage and counsel many of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) who have been suffering from trauma. We […]
