“Western North Carolina is destroyed. Hell on earth. I spent last night chainsawing fallen logs on a mountain so people could get in. Before that we were hunting for survivors in (town) and delivering water to the fire department. Got a family out today…”
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Can you tell us NC people what org your friend is working with? I want to steer donations to effective groups, NOT red cross.
Saw some memes on FB saying to only donate to the red cross. To not do anything but that. Utterly ridiculous and useless.
Asking where he recommends donating. I'll update this comment when I get an answer. (Edit: he provided this link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief )
Highly appreciated! There's been no official anything from government nor church orgs. Individual churches I think are the only groups getting out there, but I only attend one, that hasn't gotten their junk together.
His team is a well-organized Russian Orthodox parish in Tennessee. The answer I received to my question was this donation link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief
I’ve seen many local churches are getting donations together and taking it themselves. I’m in Eastern NC. I’ve also seen posts from officials in the disaster area saying don’t bring anything until they say it’s ok. I think it’s because they can’t let people into an unsafe area and possibly don’t have the people to handle donations. I can’t get a clear explanation on this.
This parish is what the volunteer who wrote this post is working with. They are connected to responders and have the necessary connections and manpower to make things happen and get funds to others who can. https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief
I just gave a donation to Operation Blessing after they were recommended. I'd never heard of it before but they are doing good work and I did a bit of research first and they came out sparkling clean.
New to me, but definitely will give it a try, thank you!
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