County Executive Day and Julien look over linens at former Summit
Park nursing home
NEW CITY – Unused supplies from the closed down Rockland County
Summit Park nursing home will be donated to local groups assisting with
the Haitian hurricane relief efforts.
The items include hospital bed beds, towels, patient gowns, baby powder,
shaving cream, oral swabs, toothbrushes and other items.
“There is such great need in Haiti,” said Renold Julien, executive
director of Konbit Neg Lakay, a Haitian-American organization in Spring
Valley.
“We want these supplies to go to good use,” said County Executive
Edwin Day. “There are strong ties between Rockland County and Haiti
and there is no better use than sending these items to Haiti, which is
in dire need following Hurricane Matthew.”
Julien and Sandra Oates, who is with the HACSO Community Center in Spring
Valley, are leading the county Haitian relief campaign.
The campaign is raising funds to shop the donated supplies to Haiti.
