Kira Thompson-Aird, Manager Communications,
Mrs. Dewhurst, Director Community Isles Inc/Grotto Home,
Mrs. Blaize Jones, Supervisor Grotto Home, Mr. Julian Isles, Operations Clerk
The Geest Line, represented by local Agent H.H.V. Whitchurch & Co. Ltd. donated a forty foot container to Community Hostels Incorporated, a non-profit organization and parent body of the Grotto Home for the Homeless. The generosity of donors subsidises the Grotto Home.
Some of the residents of the Grotto Home served their country faithfully and have subsequently fallen on hard times. Other residents are disabled persons whose parents who either passed away, or abandoned them as children.
Most of the residents at the Grotto Home face more than just the issue of being homeless – the majority are either mentally of physically challenged.
Whilst Community Hostels Inc. has been able to procure funding to establish a new site at Stockfarm, the need for a fence around the property and completion of trimmings, such as tiling on the interior, hold back the move. Meanwhile, the Home operates at the old Dominica Club property site on Bath Road.
The Grotto Home Supervisor Mrs. Lucia Blaize Jones stated that [they] had been trying for the longest while to get storage space for their items and the passing of Tropical Storm Erika made the situation more acute.
The current storage area of the Grotto Home was flooding due to the heavy rains, causing loss to items in storage. Those items that were able to be salvaged needed a new storage facility, making this donation a timely one.
Members of the Whitchurch Team visited the Grotto Home to meet with the Staff and visit with some of the residents, as well as observing the damaged storage area and observing the relocation of the stored items to the Geest Line Container.
ThankYou! Thank You. To Geest and all those who are working feveriously to make our Brothers and sisters, life a little better. God will bless You all.