We reached our 5th day in the Bahamas, and most of our team in Nassau flew to Freeport to join the others there. The workload increased in Freeport, where K1 DIRECT continued to manage the distribution process, working alongside local volunteers, organizing supplies to be distributed to homes and shelters. During the EOC meeting in […]

Iris in Nassau visited another hotel with USAID – US Agency for International Development and American Red Cross, it was a location identified previously with Bahamas Resolve Limited. It was important to get various organizations involved to figure out who would be able to take up which responsibility, whether it’s funding to fix the building or manage utilities, or […]

Day 4 in the Bahamas, the team in Nassau continued to discuss, network and collaborate with international and local aid organizations to find ways to find solutions to set-up new shelters in Nassau. K1 DIRECT was also invited on air on The Paradigm Shift with Michelle Malcolm on the local radio station 96.9 FM to share their […]

During Day 3 in the Bahamas, a group spent the day assessing buildings and properties that would potentially be a good fit for shelters. Once they gathered contact information for property owners, realtors, community centers & unused government buildings, they made a strategic plan and narrowed down several options that would meet the minimum international […]

During Day 2 in the Bahamas, after partner meetings, K1 DIRECT found the most effective way to assist would be to split the teams into two groups, where half would go to Freeport and the other half would stay in Nassau. In Nassau, tasks identified were to continue to assist with data collection, registration of […]

Yesterday the team took turns to assist with data management at a private airport in Nassau. Here our tasks included registering evacuees that came off of private charters, commercial evacuation flights and ferries. K1 DIRECT assisted with inputting the evacuees information such as passport, DOB, and contact details into laptops. This was done entirely by […]

We continued working with the Ministry of Education to host teacher training sessions in the North of Dominica. At the start of the week, we had 2 four-hour sessions from 9:30 to 1pm, targeting the last schools in the region. The training sessions created a forum where the teachers could feel comfortable sharing their experiences […]

At the first day of debriefing at the Roosevelt Douglas Primary school, we focused on enabling the teachers to receive trauma counseling and keys to work through their personal experiences. So on the second day, we focused on giving them the tools needed to help the children as they return to school. We were able […]

At one of the shelters last week we met the crew from a boat called Diamant, who had come in from Grenada with food for the island. This week they returned with more supplies from Martinique and we assisted in making 50 individual care packages that contained food, NFI’s (non-food items) and other supplies, as […]

The last few days we’ve been working with IOM to assist in visiting each of the 179 shelters on the island and assess the current state of each of the shelters. During these visits, we were able to encourage and counsel many of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) who have been suffering from trauma. We’ve […]