RELIEF CONTACT: DIASPORA
Shipping/Airfreight
from New York
Laparkan fee:US $60/50 lbs package
Caribbean Cargo in Brooklyn has low rate of US$10/25lb box Tel: (718) 856-1805
or Email: ccpscha@verizon.net
Universal will carry 50lbs (sealed and labeled) free!
Call (718) 441-4900 (Q) or ( 718) 469-2900 (Brklyn)
In
Canada: Contact the Guyana Consulate at (416)
494-6040. Or deposit at TD Canada Trust. Account Number is 06845204580.
Branch no. is 18442.
In the UK: Guyana High Commission,
call (44) 207 701 6876
In
Washington, DC: The Guyana Embassy at 2490
Tracy Place NW. Phone: (202) 265 6900
In
Florida: The Guyana Consulate at 795 NW 72
Street,
Miami, Florida. Please call (786) 235 0431
FLOOD NEWS
GUYANA
RELIEF CONTACT
Guyan
uyana Hotline:
Guyana Red Cross
592-226-5174, 592-226-0384
The Guyana Relief Council: 592-225-3081
Salvation Army: 592 227-2619 and 592 226-9940
The Civil Defence Commission in Georgetown
at 226-1114, 226-1117, 226-2815
Direst Deposit to the
Red Cross Disaster Fund acccount
at the following: NBIC account# 653-346-7 and account #2763040;
GBTI at account #CIDA814213, Scotia Bank at account #109778 and Demerara
Bank at account #2162188
FLOOD
POEMS
Flood
2005: Sonnet in Creole
dem dey in dem
wet wet house
wid caugh and cold and sneeze
bare dem cheef like wan church mouse
through hunger and disease.
government share dere bags around
all bady did the same
pore people fled to higher ground
such wait pan such broken frame.
how much more
abe gat fu face
how lang go be abe fate
fu doze who collect taxes
to keep flood from de coastal gate?
dem gaze pan
dem homes below
pani fast, all thing else prapa slow.
kampta karran
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