St Cuthbert’s Mission preparing to “bounce back”

TOSHAO of St Cuthbert’s Mission Timothy Andrews vowed his community will overcome
the strugglers currently endured by the 1,500 residents clobbered by recent flooding.
The heavily-agriculture economy of the Mahaica River community was almost wiped out in the
deluge, Andrews had said in an earlier interview.
While the residents have lost significantly, they remain confident and determined that “we will
bounce back” as a community, an optimistic Andrews said.
“I haven’t stopped asking for help,” the Toshao reassured www.aroundthewregions.com
Andrews explored a range of avenues to help relieve residents suffering and secured help from
the charitable organisation Food for the Poor (FFP), the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) and
some of his kind friends, including Rahaman, who in total, donated 360 hampers.
Andrews was grateful for their backing.

“We appreciate all the promises and help being given but we (residents) are determined to return
to agriculture as we are confident that with agriculture there is so much that we as a community
can achieve,” the recently-elected Toshao said.
“We are seeking to rebuild what was destroyed here,” Andrews emphasise.
“We in St Cuthbert’s Mission need help as we have lost millions as the floods have been
devastating and destructive, destroying several farms and crops,” the Toshao reminded.
Those silver linings though indicate there were/are some very dark clouds.
Toshao Andrews confirmed saying their pleas “have fallen on deaf ears” among members of the
Demerara/Mahaica (Region Four) Regional Democratic Council (RDC).
Andrews is disappointed too with the lukewarm attitude to their hardship exhibited by a
number of regional and national agencies and repeated his passionate appeal to anyone
willing to help the water-soaked, Amerindian community.