Roscian Hope said she felt panic and sadness when she first heard about the volcanic eruptions in her home country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Her sister was one of thousands of Vincentians evacuated due to La Soufrière’s major eruption on April 9.
Hope, president of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Association of Calgary, knew that flying into the country to help wasn’t possible, so she and her organization quickly got to work collecting donations to send to those in need.
