{"id":92766,"date":"2020-04-15T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devsite.adra.ca\/?p=92766"},"modified":"2023-08-03T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:30:01","slug":"update-on-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/stories\/update-on-the-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Le point sur les Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the Bahamas, what happened with this hurricane, I guess you call this kind of storm a \u201conce in a century\u201d or \u201conce in a lifetime.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the initial relief has already been done. We did some hot meal programs, some food distribution, as well as giving hygiene kits and mattresses. We\u2019ve provided desks and chairs to schools which were flooded and damaged.\u00a0 We\u2019ve provided backpacks to students who lost everything so that they could return to school.<\/p>\n

Chaque fois qu\u2019il y a une catastrophe, vous vivez toutes sortes d\u2019exp\u00e9riences et toutes sortes de personnes ont des r\u00e9actions diff\u00e9rentes. Parfois, ce que vous pensez n\u2019est peut-\u00eatre rien pour vous, c\u2019est le monde pour quelqu\u2019un d\u2019autre.<\/p>\n

A particular case in point, I\u2019m thinking of an individual that lost everything. When I say they lost everything, I mean they lost everything. When I looked at the home, it was just heartbreaking. We gave them a mattress, and they sent back a heartwarming message the next day, telling us that they had finally been able to get a good night\u2019s sleep. Until we gave them the mattress, they had been sleeping on the floor. For us, it was giving a mattress. For them, it was the world.<\/p>\n

When we did the hot meal program, individuals were thankful that they could get a meal for a day because there was no electricity to power their stoves, and they couldn\u2019t cook.<\/p>\n

Lorsque nous faisions l'\u00e9picerie, les gens \u00e9taient simplement reconnaissants de pouvoir avoir un repas.<\/p>\n

Grand Bahama\u2019s fresh water supply was contaminated by seawater when a 20-foot storm surge flooded large parts of the island. Even now, the water is still not safe to drink. ADRA, in partnership with water mission, has been providing free, safe, clean water to 20 schools and their surrounding communities.<\/p>\n

The water company allows us to pull the water from wells, which we then process through a triple reverse osmosis system. The system is capable of processing up to 12,000 gallons of water per day. The water company is tapping into a water table that wasn\u2019t contaminated and we hope that the system will be back to normal in a few months. Until then, ADRA and water mission will continue to ensure that people are able to get the water that they need.<\/p>\n

Right now we\u2019re in the reconstruction phase. We\u2019re looking at rebuilding some of the schools that have been damaged by Dorian.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m not directly impacted, it\u2019s the direct impact of the persons around me that allows my heart to be drawn towards what has happened to them and makes me say, how can I help them to make sure that they get through this situation? It\u2019s like Martin Luther King, Jr. said, all of us are tied together in a single garment of destiny.<\/p>\n

Merci beaucoup, ADRA Canada, pour ce que vous avez fait. Nous l\u2019appr\u00e9cions vraiment.<\/p>\n

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" Aux Bahamas, que s'est-il pass\u00e9 avec cet ouragan, je suppose que vous appelez ce genre de temp\u00eate " une fois par si\u00e8cle " ou " une fois dans une vie ". La majeure partie des secours initiaux a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e. Nous avons organis\u00e9 des programmes de repas chauds, distribu\u00e9 de la nourriture et distribu\u00e9 des kits d'hygi\u00e8ne et des matelas. Nous avons \u2026 lire la suite<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":92174,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[131,106,145],"class_list":["post-92766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-bahamas","tag-emergency-response","tag-news-and-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}