Volunteers and members of the Haitian community in Brooklyn are sending 5,000 pounds of school supplies and food to Haiti, thanks to efforts by the Haitian American Caucus Haiti in Flatbush.
Volunteers piled boxes and drums high with supplies and drove them down to Florida to be shipped by boat to the embattled nation.
The shipment is part of an effort to fight hunger and instability caused by gang violence in the country, which the United Nations says threatens to cause malnutrition in the nation…