By Kayla O'Neill | Business Partnerships
Your donation has provided vital support to a wide range of long-term recovery work, with a particular focus on rebuilding homes and ensuring food security to affected individuals.
Here are updates from three of the organizations supported through the Lone Star Relief Fund:
BakerRipley has assisted more than 15,000 individuals to develop tailored recovery plans and connected them with the services and resources they need to recover through their Neighborhood Restoration Centers. And over the past year, they've supported more than 16,000 individuals and households with direct financial assistance to help meet basic needs.
Food Bank Rio Grande Valley continues to help sister food banks in Houston, Victoria, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi feed families still coping with the effects of Hurricane Harvey. They've delivered more than 20 truckloads of relief supplies, including more than 2 million pounds of water and food to support tens of thousands of area residents.
All Hands and Hearts' teams in the Houston and Coastal Bend area are focusing on rebuilding area homes, and have completed 15 home rebuilds to date, with another six homes currently in progress. Their staff has also been hard at work rebuilding classrooms and wheelchair ramps at the Rhodes School in northeast Houston, a public charter school that serves 1,100 students from low-income areas across the city.
After more than one year of raising funds for Hurricane Harvey relief and recovery, the Lone Star Relief Fund is now closing. Thank you again for your generous support of the Lone Star Relief Fund, and for making the smart decision to donate cash to fund an effective, community-led approach to disaster recovery. We enjoyed sharing with you stories of progress toward a full recovery for the people of the Texas Gulf Coast.
If you'd like to continue to support long-term recovery from local organizations, you can support GlobalGiving's Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.
By Kayla O'Neill | Partnerships
By Kayla O'Neill | Partnerships Team
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