Ten Foodgrains Bank members respond to Hurricane Dorian
Canadians are encouraged to make donations directly to responding members
Hurricane Dorian has left a trail of destruction in the Bahamas that Prime Minister Hubert Minnis is calling “one of the greatest national crises in our country’s history.”
One of the greatest national crises in our country’s history.”
– Hubert Minnis, Prime Minister of the Bahamas
As many as 13,000 homes representing 45% of the homes in the Bahamas may have been destroyed or severely damaged in the wake of the Hurricane.According to the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP), food may be required for 14,500 people in the northern Bahamas’ Abaco Islands and for 45,700 people in Grand Bahama, based on preliminary assessments by representatives of Caribbean nations, the WFP and other groups.
“Those who have lost their homes and livelihoods will need our prayers in the weeks and months to come. It is going to be a long and difficult road for many” says international programs director Barbara Macdonald.
You can find resources to pray for the those affected by Hurricane Dorian to be used on your own, with family, a small group, in schools or in church here.