14 February 2018.
We have been in phone contact with our in-country partners, Rotary Tonga and two local NGO’s with which Rotary has had a historical track record.
Everyone has been affected by Cyclone Gita on Tongatapu including Rotary members with some major damage to their homes.
The club is small in number and the President is overseas. It has fallen to the incoming President, a relatively new Rotarian to manage and we are giving her every encouragement.
To relieve the pressure on the Rotary Club, the Emergency Response Kits, some 550 are being distributed today by the partners and above all coordinated to ensure that the kits get to the neediest with no duplication.
The National Disaster Management Office and other agencies have been slow to move and once again Rotary Emergency Response Kits are the first support many are receiving. In the coming days, we will be working with the partners to provide them with the resources to provide more support.
Thank you to those who have already responded including many individual members who have been in contact with us.
We need cash donations as soon as possible to allow us to remit to Tonga to ensure that they are able to purchase and distribute other essential items incl. food parcels and water.
Email received from Tonga Incoming President Masha
“What a Valentine Day- working to put a smile on the people's faces, as my friend Na'a (TCDT) told. Thank You to Stuart James Batty for the great level of team building from country to country. Thank You to our partners, TCDT and MORDI Tonga, for helping with the distribution of Rotary Emergency Response Kits to our people. The resident of Longolongo got in touch with us through Rotary Club's FB page, telling us, there was a family, which needed our help- Na'a and I we decided to go to see those people and to deliver the Kit personally. Distribution of the Kits shall continue today and tomorrow, as long as we have Kits available, and a report will be delivered to RNZWCS. Sorry for being so late, but now we are with you. Stay safe, and Ofa Atu ❤”
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Stuart J Batty QSM,JP
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