SCG Service Trip to Puerto Rico BLOG!!

 

 

From June 9-15, about fifteen Spring Glen Church (SGC) members and friends from Hamden and North Haven, CT traveled to Puerto Rico to help local residents rebuild after Hurricanes Irma (Sept 2017) and Maria (October 2017), both Category 5 storms, devastated the island last year. Through a partnership with Praying Pelican Missions ( PPM, https://www.gofundme.com/sgc-service-trip-to-puerto-rico ), they are connecting with a local church that will provide a base of operations. PPM is also providing a mission guide and local contractor who will lead us in assisting home owners with the repair or installation of windows, roofing, siding, sheetrock, and landscaping, and we’ll be painting. 

 

On March 20, 2018, Julio Ricardo Varela reported for NPR’s Latino USA that more than 150,000 residents of Puerto Rico, mostly located in the mountainous central region of the island, are still without power. And although the official death toll from Maria alone is 64, the true number is more like 1100 when you factor in deaths resulting from the loss of electricity: victims cutoff from life-saving medical equipment like dialysis, and medicines requiring refrigeration like insulin.