By Angela Bates | Executive Director
Greene Lamp Community Action continued to assist families impacted by Hurricane Florence as part of the long-term recovery efforts. Families began doing muck-outs and tearing out subflooring and sheetrock, and covering roofs with tarps until funds were available for repair work to begin. During the storm, two elementary schools were destroyed and all supplies, books, electronics, etc... were ruined due to heavy rains.
Greene Lamp and Global Giving began reaching out into those communities hardest hit and offering support to families who chose to begin repairing their homes and rebuilding their lives. Families continued to live in homes with mold covered walls and ceilings; and leaking roofs. Global Giving funds were able to help those families replace subflooring, sheetrock for walls and ceiling as well as repair roofs.
One familiy of four (4) (2 adults and 2 children - one with sepecial needs) was only able to live in a small section of their home where they had torn out the sheetrock walls, carpet and tile while the remainder of their home had succumbed to mold. Greene Lamp and Global Giving provided funds to purchase subflooring and sheetrock for the unlivable area in their home.
Another family of two (with an expectant mother) had lived for almost a year with tarps on their roof and buckets inside to catch rainwater from subsequent rains. Greene Lamp was able to provide funds for shingles to re-roof their home.
As well, Global Giving funds purchased 100 Chrome Books for a local elementary school which was devastated by the storm. The Chromebooks now form the basis of a STEM lab in a small, rural elementary school and provide opporutnities otherwise not available for children ages 4 to 12.
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