$40K grant for hurricane victims

Notes: "The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has committed $40,000 to help those stricken by Hurricane Irma in Cuba and Haiti, it announced September 12 [2017]. PWRDF set aside $20,000 for an appeal for Cuba announced by the ACT Alliance, a network of faith-based aid groups of which PWRDF is a member. The agency allocated another $10,000 for the Episcopal Church of Cuba and $10,000 for a request for rapid-response funds from the Haiti ACT Alliance forum, PWRDF said. Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm to have swept the Caribbean in a decade, passed through several Caribbean islands and into Florida and other south-east U.S. states September 5 [2017]. As of September 21, 73 people were reported to have died as a result of the hurricane". "PWRDF said it is also accepting donations to help those stricken by an earthquake that hit Mexico's south coast September 7 [2017]. As of September 23, 320 people were reported to have been killed by the quake, the strongest to have hit Mexico in a century".

Subjects: Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Grants; Disaster relief - Cuba; Disaster relief - Haiti; Disaster relief - Mexico; Disaster relief - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Hurricane Irma, 2017; Earthquakes - Mexico, 2017