Dear brothers and sisters, Last Thursday (Sept. 4), one group of leaders of the FIBAC (Fraternity of Baptist Churches of Cuba) visited the province of Pinar del Rio in order to give a small help to people more affected by the hurricane Gustav and to evaluate the existent situation. We visited the town Paso Real de San Diego and others, for that place it passed the eye of the hurricane Gustav. In an existent meteorological station they registered winds of 340 km/hora (218 millas/hora) before it broke the equipment of measuring the winds.
The destruction of houses is really terrible, some houses have fallen, a great quantity has lost the roofs total or partially, in the mentioned area there is not electricity. People have lost their clothes, televisions, radios and many other equipments, we still saw mattresses that are being dried under the sun.
Thursday in our visit in a limited way we gave as donations from our own Churches: clothes, candles, matches, cookies, fresh water, burner to cook with diesel, medications for the fever and some things more than they can cover some urgent necessities.
We saw as the families were receiving materials from the government in order to repair their houses partially, mainly the roofs, but with the same previous constructive system, for this reason in the future they will have the same problem with the visit of a new hurricane.
As the province of Pinar del Rio has been touch by 40% of the hurricanes that arrived to Cuba, we understand that is good to help to some of the families to build (as part of their houses) a bathroom and a contiguous room resistant to the hurricanes so that it can serve them as refuge during the visit of a new hurricane, the cost of those two rooms is 2000 USD (approximately). --From Manuel Delgado, Havana, Cuba
Rev. Manuel Delgado. Pastor de la Iglesia Bautista "Comunidad Cristiana Emanuel" Vice-Presidente de la Fraternidad de Iglesias Bautistas de Cuba. Apartado 45, San José de las Lajas, La Habana 32700, Cuba Tel/Fax: 53-47-864282 e-mail: emanuel@enet.cu
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