Red Cross hands over portable rice mill to Baracara

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
GRC Secretary-General Dorothy Fraser (second, right) smiles during a ceremony held to mark the presentation of a rice mill to the Baracara community. The other representatives looking on are, from left, Field Officer Gavin Gounga, CDRT Baracara Team Leader Wilton Hinds, CDC representative Sean Welcome, Canadian Delegate Heather Fehr, Fraser and GRC Volunteer Collis Augustine.
GRC Secretary-General Dorothy Fraser (second, right) smiles during a ceremony held to mark the presentation of a rice mill to the Baracara community. The other representatives looking on are, from left, Field Officer Gavin Gounga, CDRT Baracara Team Leader Wilton Hinds, CDC representative Sean Welcome, Canadian Delegate Heather Fehr, Fraser and GRC Volunteer Collis Augustine.

The Guyana Red Cross (GRC) Society last Sunday presented a portable rice mill to Baracara under its Carib-bean Community Resilience to Disaster Risk (CCRDR) initiative which aims to strengthen communities’ resilience in natural disasters.

According to a press release from the Red Cross, in Baracara, residents depend heavily upon rice cultivation for