Dom Bosco Institute collecting donations for flood victims

(MissionNewswire) Dom Bosco Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has been welcoming truck drivers bringing donations and volunteers from Rondonópolis in Mato Grosso and Lauro de Freitas in the state of Bahia. The donations are being supplied to those who have been impacted by the recent flooding in the country.

A Salesian explained, “Trucks have arrived loaded with water, food, clothing, blankets and mattresses. These are donations collected from various regions of the country since the tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul raised awareness in other Brazilian states.”

Ivanir de Souza was responsible for transporting the load from Bahia. He said, “I always knew that Rio Grande do Sul was a wonderful place to visit. It’s a shame that my visit is under these calamitous circumstances. The journey was undertaken as an emergency to deliver aid as quickly as possible.”

Just a few days earlier, the Dom Bosco Institute received aid from Curitiba. Maria Elvira Jardim Menegassi, executive director of the Dom Bosco Institute, has been responsible for organizing the school as a distribution center. She explained, “Thanks to an agreement made by a relative of one of our employees, we got in touch with an entrepreneur from Paraná who, along with three other companies in the fertilizer sector, managed to send a large delivery to our school.”

The convoy, containing over 40 tons of food, was unpacked by volunteers who worked on an assembly line to unload products which included rice, sugar, coffee, flour and oil. The donations were transferred to food baskets, which were distributed the next day to those displaced by the flooding.

Members of the National Security Force from the state of Tocantins also visited the Dom Bosco Institute where they were welcomed by Father Ademir Ricardo Cwendrych, the Salesian provincial of the San Pio X Province of Brazil-Porto Alegre. The group toured the school and the classrooms used for sorting the donations and praised the Salesians for their work.

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ANS – Brazil – The Nation

United for Rio Grande do Sul: Donations Arrive Daily at the “Dom Bosco” Institute in Porto Alegre

Salesian Missions – Brazil

World Bank – Brazil