Romania Snow Crisis

Subject: Romanian Crisis


To the Feed The Hungry Team.
I need to present a situation to you for your advice. In Romania we have many requests for help from churches, families, and from the village officials and CPS department. Entire villages are covered with snow, cutting off the people from deliveries of food and basic supplies. The army is now digging some of these houses out of the snow but it is a slow process.

We have a good supply of food and winter clothing at our warehouse in Bucharest that we could use to help the most desperate of these people. But before we try to make our way through the ice with snow chains on our truck, I wanted to first get your guidance concerning our supplies. Do we hold back the food for future use at our Feeding Centres or could we have a quick response now to the most desperate requests for help? If we do help now, what is the extent of the help? What is the limit? I can send you the money for the container of beans that we spoke about but this will not arrive until later, possibly to help replace some of the food that we use for the crisis now. But even with the bean container, we will still be low on can goods and soup mix.

I want to stay within the guidelines that FTH sets for using the food. I can raise a little money to purchase bread and other necessities but I could do much more if we could use a portion of our supplies at our Bucharest warehouse.




Please let me know your suggestions. We will stay within the limits and guidelines that you set.

God bless you and all of the staff at FTH

We received this request from Bread of Life in Romania asking if we could release some of the ECED inventory in their warehouse (soup mix, beans, canned goods) for emergency distributions to people trapped by the snowstorms outside of Bucharest. Of course we said “Yes” and told BOL to use up to 50% of our goods for emergency relief.


We have a lorry ready to go from Germany but is as yet unable to get through safely. We are also looking at what we can do to supplement this by sending a container of Food , clothing and blankets from the UK, if you can help please let me know. email me at gwilliams@feedthehungry.org or if you would like to donate towards thids crisis please go to http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/
 
 
Gwyn Williams
Operations Manager