Cws Emergency Cleanup Buckets Now Reaching Illinois
More Buckets Urgently Needed To Fill Demand
May 3, 2013--Over the past 10 days, Church World Service has shipped nearly 1,500 CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets to Illinois for flood-affected households and expects to ship thousands more, thereby creating an urgent need for additional supplies.
The buckets shipped included 500 that were quickly distributed to people cleaning up after storms and floods by the DuPage County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in Wheaton, Ill. An additional 992 CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets are slated to arrive at the American Red Cross in Rolling Meadows Friday for distribution to area households on Saturday.
“With needs assessment ongoing, CWS expects to respond to additional requests from Illinois for Emergency Cleanup Buckets next week,” said Barry Shade, CWS associate director for Domestic Disaster Response.
Heavy precipitation from early 2013 storms and floods in Illinois has resulted in widespread,and severe flooding. The state has declared 48 counties as disaster areas. Flooding has occurred on numerous rivers and their tributaries, including the Mississippi, Illinois, Green, Spoon, Rock, DuPage, and Sangamon rivers.
The need for CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets in Illinois is quickly outstripping CWS’s supply. Shade is urgently appealing for congregations and other community groups to assemble and send buckets. “The Ferncliff, Ark., warehouse is now empty of buckets, and the supply in the New Windsor, Md., is rapidly being depleted. We are in urgent need of replenishment,” he said.
Go to this website for CWS Emergency Cleanup Bucket contents and instructions: www.cwsglobal.org/get-involved/kits/emergency-clean-upbuckets.html
Contributions to support CWS emergency response efforts may be sent to your denomination/communion or to Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN 46515. (REF: EARLY 2013 STORMS, FLOODS and TORNADOES APPEAL {U.S.} # 627- X.). Donations to our emergency response efforts around the globe may also be made online. See CWS Appeal #627-X, www.cwsglobal.org/newsroom/appeals-and-updates/update2-us-storms-2013.html
CWS Emergency Response Specialist Susanne Gilmore, based in Manhattan, Kansas, is the point of contact for CWS assistance in Illinois. sgilmore@churchworldservice.org; 785-477-7823
May 3, 2013--Over the past 10 days, Church World Service has shipped nearly 1,500 CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets to Illinois for flood-affected households and expects to ship thousands more, thereby creating an urgent need for additional supplies.
The buckets shipped included 500 that were quickly distributed to people cleaning up after storms and floods by the DuPage County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in Wheaton, Ill. An additional 992 CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets are slated to arrive at the American Red Cross in Rolling Meadows Friday for distribution to area households on Saturday.
“With needs assessment ongoing, CWS expects to respond to additional requests from Illinois for Emergency Cleanup Buckets next week,” said Barry Shade, CWS associate director for Domestic Disaster Response.
Heavy precipitation from early 2013 storms and floods in Illinois has resulted in widespread,and severe flooding. The state has declared 48 counties as disaster areas. Flooding has occurred on numerous rivers and their tributaries, including the Mississippi, Illinois, Green, Spoon, Rock, DuPage, and Sangamon rivers.
The need for CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets in Illinois is quickly outstripping CWS’s supply. Shade is urgently appealing for congregations and other community groups to assemble and send buckets. “The Ferncliff, Ark., warehouse is now empty of buckets, and the supply in the New Windsor, Md., is rapidly being depleted. We are in urgent need of replenishment,” he said.
Go to this website for CWS Emergency Cleanup Bucket contents and instructions: www.cwsglobal.org/get-involved/kits/emergency-clean-upbuckets.html
Contributions to support CWS emergency response efforts may be sent to your denomination/communion or to Church World Service, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart, IN 46515. (REF: EARLY 2013 STORMS, FLOODS and TORNADOES APPEAL {U.S.} # 627- X.). Donations to our emergency response efforts around the globe may also be made online. See CWS Appeal #627-X, www.cwsglobal.org/newsroom/appeals-and-updates/update2-us-storms-2013.html
CWS Emergency Response Specialist Susanne Gilmore, based in Manhattan, Kansas, is the point of contact for CWS assistance in Illinois. sgilmore@churchworldservice.org; 785-477-7823
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