Canteens and National Emergency Commission to Assist Communities Affected by Heavy Rains

The government will deliver thousands of rations of food to families in communities affected by heavy the rains hitting parts of the country. This effort will be carried out by the Economic Canteens of the State with a 1.6 million peso investment.

“In the case of lower Yuna, the Canteens have been giving assistance to all of those people affected, and we will continue to do on a permanent basis as long as the problem of isolation persists in these communities,”

The administrator general of the institution, Nicolás Calderón, delivered 3,500 rations of food to General Luis Luna Paulino, President of the National Emergency Commission (CNE), which will oversee the distribution of the food. 

At a press release in CNE headquarters, Mr. Calderón also announced that the mobile kitchen will be taken to the areas affected by the rains in order to distribute the cooked meals.

“In the case of lower Yuna, the Canteens have been giving assistance to all of those people affected, and we will continue to do on a permanent basis as long as the problem of isolation persists in these communities,” said Calderón.

Luna Paulino called the food delivery from Calderón a significant and necessary contribution to help to affected families in the 37 communities that have been left incommunicado. 

 ¨Large numbers of Dominicans are in need of this support that consists of taking good quality food in sufficient quantities into these areas to remedy the situation in which people find themselves isolated by the rain that has fallen in parts of the country,” said Luna Paulino. She announced that the organization of which she is the director is seeking to identify the families that need this help.

The rations that are being delivered contain rice, oil, salami, beans, pasta, garlic and tomato sauce, among other products.

According to the CNE, the affected communities in Villa Altagracia include: Lechería, Los Guineos, Hormigo, Mayor de Ley, Reparadero, Maizal, La Lomita and La Guasima, as a result of the overflow of the Haina River. In María Trinidad Sánchez these areas are affected: Los Guyabitos, Los Jengibre, El Lavador, Alemania, Laguna del Caimán and Los Cuervo, from the overflow of the Baba, Arroyo Grande, Arroyo Almedio, Los Guazaro, La Palmita el Papaya Rivers.