Monthly Program Update - Texas (January 2020)

TEXAS HURRICANE RECOVERY UPDATE January 2020

TOTAL PROGRAM IMPACT

4,274 4,395

Current Activities LIVES IMPACTED VOLUNTEERS

40,442

VOLUNTEER DAYS

1,191

JOBS COMPLETED

After a successful holiday season filled with love, laughter and continued hard work in the community, our Hurricane Harvey relief programs are looking to make 2020 another year of putting families back into their homes.

This month we are excited to highlight our continued work with local partners such as the Coastal Bend Disaster Relief Organization, Rockport Hands of Hope, and Habitat for Humanity. We’d also like to highlight our new partnership with Interfaith Action of Central Texas (iACT) with whom we hope to put 10 families back into their homes.

In addition to our traditional recovery work we continue to partner with other local organizations in an effort to expand our impact on affected communities. In Houston we’ve continued to support Food not Bombs, distributing food to communities in need, whilst in Coastal Bend we’ve continued to work on community beautification projects with Keep Aransas County Beautiful.

Project Spotlight The team in Coastal Bend worked with Keep Aransas County Beautiful and Coastal Bend Bird Environment Protection Biologists to remove debris, rebuild rookeries, propagate cacti, plant native bush, and spray for fire ants on two federally protected wildlife islands. Volunteers worked on their off days in an effort to preserve what is incredibly important to the community. Their hard work lends itself to our mission of community renewal above and beyond our traditional recovery work.

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Disaster Profile Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017, near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 Hurricane 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.

Our Partners in Texas

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