Winter is coming and some families in Western North Carolina have returned to what is left of their land, living in tents. Helene sparked more than 500 landslides, taking out homes and communities. The flood waters took out property too. Families who had 12 acres now have 6 and no home. Below is a list of where ongoing donations may be made. If you have other places, please email me and I will add it to the list. Thoughts, prayers, goods and money need to continue to these families through the fall and winter.
photo from facebook post. Rey Castillo Photography
Donations
Here’s a local list from Mia passed to me from George
Beloved Asheville is regularly filling up their trucks with food, water and gas and distributing it in Asheville. Donations go directly to funding the food, water and supplies they are bringing. https://www.facebook.com/BeLovedAsheville
Mountain Mule Packer Ranch are taking strings of pack mules with supplies to hard hit areas that are not accessible by any other way. https://www.facebook.com/mountainmulepackersranch/
The Cajun Navy 2016 is bringing supplies directly to the people and has established an Amazon wishlist!
https://www.facebook.com/cajunnavy2016.org
Grassroots Aid Partnership – Another local, grassroots org that is cooking meals locally sourced and distributing in Asheville. https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsaidpartnership
Hearts with Hands disaster relief in Asheville – https://www.heartswithhands.org/
Asheville Dream center is setting up a large distribution center of supplies at the Asheville Mall.
Donate at – https://ashevilledreamcenter.org/
Manna Food Bank of Asheville – https://www.facebook.com/MANNAFoodBank
World Central Kitchen (not local, but doing direct relief work on the ground) is cooking warm meals daily and distributing in many of the effected areas, not just Ashville. Here is a link to their website, and it looks like you can specify in the comments where you want the funds to go – https://wck.org/
