La Soufriere Volcano eruption Response - OM in the Caribbean - St. Vincent & The Grenadines
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La Soufriere Volcano eruption Response OM in the Caribbean - St. Vincent & The Grenadines WWW.OM.ORG https://www.facebook.com/ominthecaribbean https://www.instagram.com/omcaribbean
The eruption • ½ of mainland evacuated • Up to 20K people dislocated • 32 violent eruptions since 9 Apr WWW.OM.ORG
Visible Effects
Water lock-off
Widespread Ash for days (all
zones)
Short period of
loss of electricity Pyroclastic Flows
in green zone
Lahars and
No Lives Lost
Mudflows
Rivers Changed
Massive Flooding
course
3 houses washed
away
OM Caribbean
Interim Country Director
The OM
SVG Local volunteers
Team -
Working Advisory Group-Reach SVG
‘Boots on
International Disaster Response
the Ground’
OM teams across the region
• Trinidad –procurement & Shipping
• Barbados
• Jamaica
• The Dutch Caribbean
• The Bahamas
Logos Hope
OM’s • Caribbean countries are among the highest
objective evangelical populations globally
• Countries are ripe for mobilisation
in the • We aim to increase awareness of the 3 Billion
least-reached and the need for and
Caribbean opportunities for global missions
• 2 Peter 3:15 Bear in • In January 2021, we targeted St. Vincent for
mind that the Lord’s more focused mobilisation efforts by
patience means appointing an Interim Country Director.
salvation
• As such our team could pivot to Relief &
Development quickly when the volcano 1st
• Philippians 1:21 For erupted. We had ‘Boots On The Ground’
to me to live is Christ,
and to die is gain. We want to see vibrant communities of Jesus
followers among the least reached.
OM joined a group of interdenominational churches and
NGOs across the Eastern Caribbean to do needs assessment
Needs and coordinate lcogistics of distribution of Relief.
Assessment Of the 89 Government Shelters 11 were chosen as initial
primary relief focus.
Christian •Layou St. Anthony House
•St Clair Dacon Secondary School
Response •Emmanual Mespo High School
•Wilson Hill New Testament Church
Team/Reach SVG •Lodge Village New Testament Church
•Barrouallie Technical Institute
•Biabou Learning Resource Centre
•Evesham Methodist School
•Belair Primary School
•Adelphi Secondary School
•St Mary’s RC School
Distributions Two days after the 1st eruption First Response - Logos Hope
OM Purchases & Distributions • 110 mattresses • 100 pillows • 120 cases of water • 13 Water tanks • 50 Hygiene Kits
Collaborated Distributions
Course Report
Psychosocial 56 Participants including local school
counsellors:
support in Participant Feedback:
I really enjoyed the two-day
Crisis presentation it was very informative
and enlightening…Wendy
Very important, enlightening and
informative seminar. Capable
trainers...Silma
this was very awesome...Onika
This was a wonderful and extended
The Course retooling of the concepts learnt
earlier in my practice. I look forward
to more of a similar
nature…Christopher
WWW.OM.ORGRubik’s
Cubes
Whilst doing needs
assessment we were able
to teach evacuees and
volunteers how to solve
Rubik’s cubesCanvas
Painting
• 13 Shelters
• 333 Canvases
• Paint
• Brush
• 80 Paint Pallets
• chalk
• https://youtube.com/play
list?list=PL3jnb6WRLw5TT
uxEUp_OYDnrkz9V_ThUCCanvas Painting Little boy paints a sad face, adult paints angry red-eyed volcano
Canvas
Painting
St. Mary’s RC
school sheltered
the children from
St. Benedict’s
Children’s home in
the Red Zone
community of
George Town.
Even with warped fingers
and no voice, Niki painted
this masterpiece and
banged her desk to point it
out to everyone!Canvas
Painting
Layla promised to
teach me how to
speak ‘Vincy’
Father relaxes with his
2 daughtersFinances St. Vincent Volcano Response Fund
Income USD
Total Donations received to June 30 (net of fees) from partners in: 15,252
Barbados 7.4%
Canada 67.1%
Jamaica 3.7%
Mexico 0.2%
Trinidad 2.7%
UK 0.9%
USA 18.0%
Expenditure
A Food, Water, Water Tanks &Hygiene Kits 9,522
B Mattresses & pillows 5,547
C Psychological First-Aid (PFA) program: children, parents & evacuees 1,183
D Training in PFA for 56 people, volunteers & counsellors 2,400
E Project Team 21
F Transport 1,505
Total Expenses 20,178
Over expenditure/Deficit (4,927)Ongoing Activities Through OM’s Logos Hope and the Working Group (Reach SVG) -Food Distributions -Clean-up of public spaces -Shelter engagement alongside local church -Bible distributions
Prayer Points
• Thanks for all the organisations, individuals and
governments that have helped so far.
• Red & some Orange Zone people still in shelters
• Government, NEMO, CDEMA and the scientist as they
continue to manage the crisis
• Tiredness and fatigue of the shelter managers and
volunteers
• Cleaning going on throughout the red and orange zones
• The need for continued distribution of food supplies and
wisdom, integrity and accountability of all those involved
• Lahars (Mudslides) in the red zones when it rains
(hurricane season)
• For the volcano to go back to sleep.
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