Brethren Disaster Team Reports To Joplin, Missouri
Children’s Disaster Services responds in Joplin, Brethren Disaster Ministries reports on preliminary activities, requests EDF grant
At the request of the American Red Cross, a team of Children’s Disaster Service (CDS) volunteers were to arrive by this morning in Joplin, Mo., to set up a Children’s Disaster Services Center at the Missouri Southern State University shelter.
The volunteers will care for children in the aftermath of the tornado that caused significant destruction on May 22. The twister rated a strong EF 5, packing winds up to 198 m.p.h., and cut a path a mile wide and six miles long through the most densely populated area of the city of 49,000.
Following a conference call with the Missouri VOAD
(Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster), Patricia Dennison reported that the area is "being overwhelmed with truckloads of clothes," and officials are hard pressed to find more places to store them. She says they’re asking people instead to "donate them to a local charity or have a large garage sale and send the money" to be used where most needed.
Responding with much-needed monetary donations is the best way to help disaster relief organizations which already have been stretched by the severe weather this spring
To support the 2011 US spring storms appeal, send your gift to Emergency Disaster Fund, Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120. Give online at www.brethren.org/disaster.
Jane Yount is coordinator for Brethren Disaster Ministries in New Windsor, Md.
At the request of the American Red Cross, a team of Children’s Disaster Service (CDS) volunteers were to arrive by this morning in Joplin, Mo., to set up a Children’s Disaster Services Center at the Missouri Southern State University shelter.
The volunteers will care for children in the aftermath of the tornado that caused significant destruction on May 22. The twister rated a strong EF 5, packing winds up to 198 m.p.h., and cut a path a mile wide and six miles long through the most densely populated area of the city of 49,000.
Following a conference call with the Missouri VOAD
(Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster), Patricia Dennison reported that the area is "being overwhelmed with truckloads of clothes," and officials are hard pressed to find more places to store them. She says they’re asking people instead to "donate them to a local charity or have a large garage sale and send the money" to be used where most needed.
Responding with much-needed monetary donations is the best way to help disaster relief organizations which already have been stretched by the severe weather this spring
To support the 2011 US spring storms appeal, send your gift to Emergency Disaster Fund, Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120. Give online at www.brethren.org/disaster.
Jane Yount is coordinator for Brethren Disaster Ministries in New Windsor, Md.
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