We had two meetings today. One meeting was to discuss solutions for long term sustainability of people being able to buy food so that we can transition away from the mass food distributions. We also had a meeting to see how we can help with the set up of the soup kitchens on the island […]
Nineteen K1 Britannia Foundation volunteers gathered at our meeting point and we divided ourselves into two teams. Yesterday, one team of volunteers visited the various institutions that we have assisted in the last two weeks and asked what they needed for the next week. Today this team gathered the requested items which included water, flour, […]
Our K1 volunteers were site managers for four evacuation centers, namely NIPA, AUC, MPC and MAC for the 48 hours prior, during and post Hurricane Maria. The Red Cross and Dutch Marines were onsite to assist with the care and safety of the emergency evacuation centers. As site managers, we saw various people come into […]
The day began at 8:30 AM when twenty volunteers gathered to begin distribution of food, water and supplies donated to the K1 Britannia Foundation to institutions with vulnerable persons on the island in preparation for Hurricane Maria. The volunteers divided into teams and delivered items to assist the institutions until the weekend. The institutions included […]
Our day started at 6 AM, when volunteers Jana and Temara cooked lunch for the team of volunteers. Our growing team of volunteers arrived at 8 AM to unpack and load items for distribution. We then set up the distribution point alongside the Koninklijke Marine for the Philipsburg area by the Old Government Administration Building, […]
Today a small contingent of our volunteers unloaded and relocated donated food from the early hours of the morning until the afternoon to add to our stock for distribution to the different institutions in need around the island, while the majority of our team worked together with the Dutch marines to continue bringing food and […]
Our team grew to 34 volunteers today as we were joined by the St Maarten Youth Brigade to assist in loading the vehicles in preparation for distribution. After loading up the trucks and vans, we sent a small team to inventory our food supplies donated to K1 Britannia Foundation in preparation for distribution in the […]
At 9 AM this morning we met at the harbor for a debriefing with all the volunteers. It was decided we would send one team to distribute much needed food to the vulnerable homes that we have been taking care of who were running out of supplies. The homes we delivered to today were the […]
We divided our team into two as the focus for today and the coming days is the government distribution of drinking water and rations. We went to two locations to assist, and worked on loading up the trucks in preparation for distribution. We dropped water off at shelters in a part of town that hasn’t […]
After being joined by four new volunteers, we received a call on the radio for our K1 Britannia Foundation Volunteer team to head out and assist in the loading and distribution of bottled drinking water to the residents of Point Blanche. We were then able to finish taking the last of the nonperishable goods and […]
We started the day by meeting with the head of the Court of Guardianship to discuss the situation with foster homes and foster children on the island. We updated her on those we had been helping since the hurricane, and she informed us that as they made contact with the remaining foster families around the […]
All our volunteers cleaned and sanitized the center designated for all the food storage and supplies. We then did another run together with the Marechausee to Le Grand Marché, which enabled us to then deliver food to the White and Yellow Cross Care Foundation as well as the St. Maarten Medical Center, which we found […]
