The Min­istry of so­cial de­vel­op­ment says it's work­ing close­ly with its key dis­as­ter stake­hold­ers in­clud­ing the first re­spon­ders, the ODPM and the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment to as­sess re­port­ed cas­es of dam­age to homes fol­low­ing the Sep­tem­ber 28 ad­verse weath­er event. The Min­istry says eight fam­i­lies have been im­pact­ed. Coun­selling sup­port has been of­fered as well.

The Min­istry al­so de­ployed a team of two of­fi­cers to vis­it the re­gion and en­gage the fam­i­lies di­rect­ly and dis­cuss the var­i­ous grants that they may ac­cess due to the dis­as­ter name­ly, the Rental As­sis­tance Grant, House­hold Items Grant, School Sup­plies Grant, Cloth­ing Grant, Mi­nor House Re­pair Grant, San­i­tary Plumb­ing Grant and House Wiring As­sis­tance Grant. No food sup­port was re­quired.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry:

-7 house­holds had their roof blown off in­clud­ing 1 prop­er­ty which was in­sured;

-Out of the 7 house­holds, 4 of them had dam­ages to house­hold items in ad­di­tion to the roof dam­age.

The Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices re­mains com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing that the nec­es­sary re­sources are mo­bi­lized to bring a sense of nor­mal­cy to af­fect­ed fam­i­lies in the short­est pos­si­ble time. Af­fect­ed per­sons may call the Min­istry’s toll free hot­line at 800 – 1MSD or the Na­tion­al Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Di­vi­sion at 623 – 2608; Ext 6300 – 6307 for psy­cho-so­cial sup­port or coun­selling.