Recently, while browsing about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, I came across an organization called Emergency RV. They describe their mission as follows:
EmergencyRV is a charitable organization initially established in response to the massive and deadly November 2018 Campfire, which decimated the entire town of Paradise, California and left more than 50,000 residents traumatized and displaced.
For founder Woody Faircloth and his then six-year-old daughter Luna, watching events unfold on television from Denver was not enough. Determined to help, the father and daughter set out to raise funds to purchase an RV and deliver it by Thanksgiving to a family in need.
Word of their kind act spread quickly and within days, press requests, RV donations, offers of legal services, and funds poured in. Before the Faircloth’s knew it, they were delivering another RV and then another. Since then, EmergencyRV has helped hundreds of victims and expanded its mission to help many more victims of wildfire and other natural disasters.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Emergency RV has placed a number of travel trailers at sites where the owners' homes were severely damaged or destroyed, leaving them nowhere to live. You'll find details of some of them at the organization's X.com feed.
I'm going to donate to them - not an RV or travel trailer (because I don't own one), but money to help buy one and/or pay for their other expenses. I'd like to suggest to you, dear readers, that this might be a cause well worth our support.
Peter
9 comments:
I can get behind this, it's NOT another typical 'helping' organization that 90% goes to admin costs.
These smaller organizations seem to be better places to send money. The bureaucratic overhead of the big boys keeps the money in the pockets of bloated bureaucrats rather than helping the people who need it.
fully agreed with you all.
thanx for the h/t
I always look for local, in what I buy and what I give.
Probably illegal in California starting in 2025, unless it is electric.
No, I'm not kidding.
MercuryOne is a good organization to donate to as well because all their administrative costs are funded by a separate yearly fundraiser so when you donate it goes straight to buying stuff.
We donated a 25ft travel trailer. Easy to do. Got a thank you call from the recipient. Looks like a legitimate bunch.
I have a friend who is a retired Dr. and has been working with an organization that goes to disaster sites. He was in Fl. after the 1st hurricane and was then sent to NC. He was home recently for 4 days. Saw him and he said it's the worst he's seen. Basically home to just get a different set of clothes for the temperature differences of having packed for Fl. He's been doing this for the last 7 years.
After a year or two, when a new home is completed, does the organization request the RV be returned for re-use to another family in need?
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