Brazil donates food to Dean’s hungry

Also weighing in with hurricane relief today was the government of Brazil. This afternoon in his Belmopan office Prime Minister Musa formally accepted a gift of two thousand baskets of basic food staples to be given to victims of Dean in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts. The donation was presented by Brazil’s resident ambassador Roberto Coutinho. The baskets contain ten pounds each of rice and flour, five pounds each of beans and sugar, one litre of cooking oil, one tin of milk powder and two tins of corned beef. The supplies, totalling over thirty-two tons, will be distributed this week by NEMO. The food items were all purchased locally by the Brazilian Embassy.