NAMASTE: SHARING IS CARING - GLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF, RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION WITH M.I.A. AND CARIBBEANS COFFEE SHOP SVG

“I wrote my first song in Bequia,” wrote M.I.A. on twitter, and “these places have been my island away from my island for the past 20 years. The devastation is unbearable”.

GER3 has received a generous donation from M.I.A.’s OHMNI Foundation [@miamatangi] & St. Vincent based Carib-Beans Superfoods Coffee House [@carib_beans_svg & @eniye__] to support GER3’s recovery efforts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in response to the eruption of the La Soufrière volcano.

Having completed Phase I: Ash Cleaning, Phase II: Homes Repairs is about to begin in Sandy Bay. Its main focus will be rehabilitating homes owned by vulnerable community members, but it will also include capacity building events including a workshop on upcycled organic compost for farmers and trainings on hurricane resistant construction techniques.

The community needs much more than what we can currently support. We are actively looking for donations to scale up the homes repair program, to replicate the upcycling compost workshop for more farmers and to ensure that the hurricane resistant structures training can reach as many members of the community as possible.

Donations at www.ger3.org

M.I.A. is a British-born, Sri Lankan rapper, singer, record producer and activist who wrote her first song on Bequia, the largest of the St. Vincent Grenadine islands. She launched an online fund-raising campaign to aid volcano-ravaged St. Vincent and the Grenadines. All of M.I.A.’s fundraising is going directly to the recovery effort.

CARIBBEANS: After the eruption, Carib-Beans Superfoods coffee house sprung into action as a base for packing supplies to shelters island-wide and raised funds to assist with daily shopping for the shelters. With the work done by JD and Eniye, Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. and her team reached out to them to work together in affecting more positive change during this difficult time.

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