Bata, 23 March, 2021 / 9:51 am (ACI Africa).
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) are reaching out to hundreds of survivors of the March 7 series of blasts in Equatorial Guinea that resulted in the loss of at least 107 human lives and more than 600 injured people in the country’s Diocese of Bata.
In a Monday, Tuesday 22 report obtained by ACI Africa, SDB members in the Central African nation note that in the aftermath of the explosions, the affected population showed up at the Salesians Spanish Institute in Bata “to receive help and attention.”
Slightly over two weeks since the explosions occurred, the Salesians have welcomed at least 100 people, mainly women and children, to the Spanish Institute, they say, adding that another 200 people take their daily lunch and dinner at the Salesian facility.
“Another large group of 200 people are being helped in the neighborhoods where they have been relocated as displaced persons,” SDB members say in the report published by Agenzia Info Salesiana (ANS), the information service of the Salesians.
The leadership of the Salesian Office of Madrid in Spain, “Misiones Salesianas”, has donated 5,000 euros to SDB members of the Institute in Equatorial Guinea toward the support of those affected by the March 7 blasts.
