The Venezuelan Embassy in T&T continues to urge concerned citizens and individuals to support its relief drive, following the Galleon’s Passage arrival in Venezuela last Friday with humanitarian aid for that country’s earthquake-hit victims.
According to a statement from the Venezuelan Embassy in T&T, Venezuelan Ambassador Alvaro Sanchez Cordero last Friday expressed profound gratitude for T&T’s significant demonstration of solidarity via the humanitarian aid, which was dispatched as soon as it arrived.
The vessel arrived last Friday after leaving the Point Lisas Development Port bound for the Port of La Guaira, one of the hardest hit areas in the June 24 twin earthquakes.
The Government-coordinated operation was known as the “National Humanitarian Relief Response for the People of Venezuela.” Donations and support were received from all of T&T’s corporations, churches, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the private sector and Venezuelan community residing in T&T, among others.
The shipment, which consisted of 332 pallets of humanitarian supplies, including more than 500 mattresses, totalled 240 tonnes of relief items intended to assist families affected by the emergency.
Cordero said the gesture from the Government and T&T people constitutes yet another expression of the historic ties of friendship, cooperation, brotherhood and sisterhood that unite both nations.
The embassy’s statement added that it continues receiving relief items on weekdays from 9 am-4 pm.
Prior to the departure of the Galleons Passage, Cordero toured the ship, accompanied by Plipdeco chairman Ramnarine Persad, acting president Deoraj Mahase, port workers and vessel crew. Reiterating thanks for the humanitarian effort, Cordero cited the spirit of generosity and cooperation that strengthens the bonds of solidarity between the people of both countries.
