Help for flood victims (From Penarth Times)

Help for flood victims

PENARTH Methodists have raised 300 for flood victims in Guyana after reading of the efforts of a Penarth lifeboatman to avert disaster in the African state.

John Kibble, of the Methodist Church in Penarth, said:

"During the blaze of publicity given to the terrible tsunami disaster, members noticed a similar though smaller disaster in Guyana, where heavy rain had caused flooding in much of the low-lying land. The small Methodist church there still looks to the UK and appealed for help.

"We learned from the Penarth Times that the Rapid Response Unit of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution had responded by sending out several inflatable lifeboats and that one of the volunteer crew was actually a Penarth man.

"We felt that the church should take action too.

"Time was given during a service on March 13 for a presentation by lifeboat man Stuart Jones who said it had been possible to avert the worst of the flooding.

"Nurse Joyce Campbell, whose family are settling down in Penarth, also spoke about her homeland Guyana."