ATLANTA, Sept. 27, 2024—Following the damage from Hurricane Helene in Florida and Georgia, Send Relief, in coordination with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, is providing relief supplies to serve communities in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas. Mobile kitchens and response sites are being coordinated immediately. Supplies include:
- Clean drinking water
- Temporary roofing
- Flood recovery kits
- Generators
- Much-needed meals
After Helene crashed into Florida’s Big Bend region the night of Sept. 26 as a Category 4 storm, Florida residents faced widespread flooding, 140 MPH winds and life-threatening storm surges with water rising as high as 11 feet. The storm quickly moved into Georgia on Friday morning as a Category 2 storm. As of Sept. 27, nearly 1 million people in Georgia remain without power.
Send Relief is coordinating efforts in the Big Bend area of Florida and Valdosta, Ga., where it has a ministry center, and will continue to provide supplies to teams on the ground as they aid relief efforts in the weeks to come. Send Relief is a faith-based relief organization that works across the U.S. and around the world to meet needs and change lives through crisis response and compassionate outreach.
MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES
– Interview Josh Benton, Send Relief’s Vice President of North American Ministry
UPCOMING VISUALS
– Photos and b-roll of volunteers at work at response sites once established
– Live shot opportunities at designated response sites once sites commence service
About Send Relief
Send Relief cares for the vulnerable, responds to global crises and connects the church with compassion ministry. Through ministry centers across the U.S. and partners on the ground in dozens of countries, Send Relief offers training, mission experiences and opportunities to support projects around the world to help transform lives with lasting impact. More information about Send Relief is available at SendRelief.org.
Published September 27, 2024