TEXAS HURRICANE RELIEF UPDATE DECEMBER 2020
TOTAL PROGRAM IMPACT TO DATE
2,177 396
LIVES IMPACTED SITES WORKED ON
19,359
VOLUNTEER DAYS
557
JOBS COMPLETED
Current Activities Our first cohort of DM12 volunteers are now more than halfway through their 12-week service commitment, and have been making great progress on our home repair work queue. We’ve completed four homes and another three are underway. The team has been busy outside of working hours as well, with the most recent event being their very own version of Thanksgiving. “Friendsgiving” involved a movie screening, socially-distant games and a dance party.
Community Stories Peter and his family are the latest recipients of our high-quality interior home repair, and they couldn’t be more happy with how the house turned out. They invited the whole team to have an outdoor, socially-distant handover party to celebrate! We were also able to collaborate with the Red Cross, who installed four smoke detectors in the home upon completion. Built in 1907, this is the first time the home has ever had them. Left Photo: Peter’s newly repaired home and some of his positive feedback captured on our monitoring and evaluation form.
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Disaster Profile Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017, near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 storm that produced a record 52" of rain and 130-mph winds. One third of Houston was completely flooded, with an estimated 136,000 homes affected in Harris County alone. The Coastal Bend region was hit especially hard, and experienced $4.5 billion in damage to an estimated 39,927 structures. Destruction in this region was magnified by high speed winds that took down trees and destroyed roofs, amplifying interior water damage far beyond that caused by the storm surge and flooding.
Our Work Thanks to critical support from donors, partners and volunteers, we’ve been in Houston and Coastal Bend since the immediate days after Hurricane Harvey. During the response phase, our teams were able to complete an impactful 16-week response program in Coastal Bend and an 18-week program in Houston. Since February 2018, our commitment to the recovery effort has concentrated site supervisors and volunteers on constructing high quality interior repair. We’re driven by the continued recognition of the immense scale of need that still exists in Texas; and the compassion of volunteers to keep coming back.
About All Hands and Hearts We effectively and efficiently address the immediate and long-term needs of communities impacted by natural disasters. We communicate directly with local leaders and community members and then deploy our unique model of engaging volunteers to enable direct impact, helping to build safer, more resilient schools, homes and infrastructure. We have earned a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator six years in a row and a Perfect 100. Less than one percent of rated nonprofits have received this distinction for financial and operational efficiency.
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