We need volunteers willing to donate a day, or several days to help home owners clean up their homes. Older youth groups and adults are welcome.
We also need pastoral care providers, chaplains and especially those with CISM and disaster experience for deployments lasting one week or more if possible.
We will find local housing and meals.
Last, we need churches throughout NY and VT who will house and provide meals for volunteers in the communities near them who were hit by Irene.
The safest and most effective way to help, is by joining up with an established organization like ours.
People are often prevented from going into sights that are not part of a recognized organization, and most importantly, they should be. During disasters many volunteers are injured because they become a liability to the rescue operation due to a lack of knowledge or experience. Even the most skilled of us end up injured at times, as we learned on our recent disaster with two injuries. Disaster sights and disasters are unpredictable.
At this time, VT still has many roads closed and even a small rain fall can cause the already existing situations to become hazardous again, stranding volunteers who them become victims of the disaster.
We are in constant contact with state and local authorities to stay abreast of road and weather hazards, as well as where we are most needed.
Please sign up with Hesed Hope for Mud Out and other volunteer opportunies by writing to me at:
jamie@hesedhope.org
And visit our web page at: www.hesedhope.org
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