International Relief Group send tug full of supplies to Dominica
by Ray Thakeray on 27 Sep 2017
Volunteers loading the Flying Buzzard in Grenada - Photo by Alexis Garrison. SW
IRG has contracted 350 ton cargo ocean tugboat Flying Buzzard, bunkered in Grenada and sailing to St. Lucia where she will take on fuel and final cargo Wednesday for the round trip to Dominica with her cargo holds full of emergency supplies. We are now out of donations! Please share and help if you can by going here
Volunteer loaders are needed in St Lucia at the port of Castries when the Flying Buzzard arrives to load additional Dominican relief supplies. Tugboat ETA is 1600 hours local time. If you're in Rodney Bay or near Castries, and can help out with loading, please meet the Buzzard when she arrives this in Castries main port terminal, Tuesday Sept 26, at 4 pm. Multiple trips are planned so if you cannot help now, please volunteer for later trips.
The people in the north of Dominica are still cut off from the rest of the island. We are looking for ways to distribute supplies from Roseau to Portsmouth. If anyone has any ability to help organize vessels that can redistribute supplies around the island, please let me know.
Great News
As of Wednesday morning, International Rescue Group and Sea Shepherd are both unloading supplies in Dominica and a small vessel is making a delivery to remote villages along the coast.
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