Posts Tagged ‘Floods’

Minot ND Update

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

At this time, NECHAMA has been working with a few partners;All Hands, Samaritian’s Purse, Lutheran Disaster Response and other local agencies in the area along with volunteers with AmeriCorps. But, we are in need of so many more volunteers! NECHAMA is very aware of how expensive it is to travel to this area, but we need people to come and help all those who were affected by this disaster. Please contact Amy acytron@nechama.org for more information.
We do have housing at a local church for volunteers.

NECHAMA helps the Sandbagging Efforts

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Sandbagging in Stillwater, MN It was a beautiful day to sandbag in Stillwater, MN this last Friday. We had a dozen NECHAMA volunteers come out and help fill sandbags for the area. Thank you very much to all that came out and helped! If we have other opportunities, we will let everyone know.

Presently, NECHAMA is not Deployed

Monday, November 1st, 2010

NECHAMA has finished the Southern, MN flood clean up after five weeks in the area. We helped over 40 homeowners and had over 150 volunteers help in these efforts. Thank you to everyone who gave their time, money and energy to this deployment.

Southern MN Flood update October 7, 2010

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

At this point we are still working in the Zumbro Falls Watershed area. Clean up is tappering off as many homes are being clean up so that home owners can start to rebuild. We have a teen volunteer day set up for Friday, Oct 22nd along with some out of town teens from NJ. At this time, we are not having any Sunday volunteer days scheduled.
If you want to volunteer during the week, please contact Amy acytron@nechama.org or 763 286 6969 for more details.

Volunteers NEEDED October 3rd

Monday, September 27th, 2010

As Jews, now in the midst of celebrating the joyous festival of Sukkot, we know with great appreciation the security and yet fragile sense of having shelter. For our Minnesota neighbors to the south, however, whose homes have been recently devastated by the flooding last week, in an all too real sense they too have personally experienced the fragile nature of life when shelter is lost.

Now is our opportunity to extend to others through the act of Tikkun, a first ray of hope and well being by our volunteering to help clean their homes.

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED IN SOUTHERN MN. Sunday, October 3, 2010 we will be caravanning to the Zumbro Valley Water Shed area to start cleaning homes and help the flood victims restore hope.
If you can come out with us, please R.S.V.P. to acytron@nechama.org. We do have a van that has 11 spots for those who need a ride. Once this is filled, we can all carpool together.
We will be meeting at 7:00am at the NECHAMA warehouse 7260 Washington Ave S, Eden Prairie, MN. We will return no later then 6:00p.m. The work that we will be doing is mucking out homes. This is removing debris, house hold items and furniture from basements. Many volunteers bring lunch, water and a clean set of clothing for their trip home.
We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!
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Bed, Breakfast and Benevolence

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Last week our team was in Clairon, IA helping flood victims restore their homes to liveable conditions. We restored 16 homes and spent 2 days helping the citizens of Clarion. Our team decided to stay at the Clarion Bed and Breakfast since all hotel rooms were taken by the victims. Much to our surprise the very generous and thoughtful family who owns the establishment, returned our check and donated our meals and rooms for the days we were there. They felt that we were there to help others and this was their way to help their town. Thank you to the Bakers at the Clarion Inn Bed and Breakfast,221 Central Ave E Clarion, Ia 50525
If you are in the area, please give them a call to make a reservation! 515.532.6832