Belize Receives Donation from Taiwan for Hurricane Victims

The prime minister of Belize, Said Musa, on Thursday accepted a check for $200,000 from the Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize, Ting Joseph Shih. The money is intended for hurricane relief efforts in the wake of hurricane destruction and recent floods.

As well, Taiwan’s International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF), in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, will deploy an 11-member Mobile Medical Mission consisting of six volunteer doctors from the Mennonite Christian Hospital in Taiwan, including a Pediatrician, Cardiologist, Urologist, Dentist, Neurologist and a General Surgeon.

The doctors will be assigned to the Corozal District where they will offer free medical services. They will be donating medicine and medical equipment and may also be touring the country in the various districts including Cayo and Toledo.

The Taiwan Technical Mission in Central Farm, Cayo, will be donating 30,000 pounds of rice as food supplies to be distributed immediately, as well as rice seeds and vegetable seeds to be cultivated.

In response to the significant damages sustained by the papaya industry in the Corozal district, Taiwan ICDF will also be sending sufficient papaya seedlings for 500 acres to be cultivated for small farmers with the assistance of the Taiwan Technical Mission.

To further assist the hurricane victims, Taiwan ICDF will also donate three containers of 34,000 pieces of clothing with an estimated value of $900,000. These high quality clothes will be ready for NEMO and the Belize Red Cross to distribute to those Belizeans who are in need of clothing items.