Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen says more than one thousand relief buckets have been prepared for earthquake-affected communities in Venezuela, with regional corporations leading the effort to sort, package and label donated supplies for shipment.

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen says over 1000 buckets of relief supplies have been sorted by regional corporations across Trinidad and Tobago. The corporations have mobilised to collect, sort and package relief supplies for earthquake-affected communities in Venezuela. The items will be transported to the PLIPDECO warehouse before being shipped to Venezuela.

“They have labelled these items in English and Spanish. They have also packed buckets with items in them, dry foods, canned foods, powdered milk and so on, and this is easy for us to give to an individual, it’s easy to ship, and we are doing this in collaboration with SEWATT. So we have over 1,000 buckets that are packaged, so it will be easy for distribution on the field given the situation with the earthquake. And all of these items will be transported to the Plipdeco warehouse, where they will be packaged on pallets to be shipped on Friday.”