Humanity Road has been providing assistance with volunteer staffing, badging, scheduling and training for the local volunteers helping a local community resource and relief center at the Allenton Rural Fire Department in Lumberton NC. Also, we have been producing local status reports for officials, and performing outreach to area aid agencies to collaborate and provide updates on operations. Huge thank you to the local Church of Latter Days Saints for your assistance, the loan of your hand trucks, and the donation of the meals and hygiene kits.
Big shout out to the local volunteers from Allenton, and Lumbertion including students from the Lumberton High School. Thank you for helping. We are all just neighbors helping neighbors here. It very much reminds me of my tiny home town in Boydton.
Sep 20
Members of FEMA Tech Sector Humanity Road, ITDRC and Sprint provided a WIFI hotspot, laptops and communications gear for operation. https://itdrc.org/ see https://www.fema.gov/tech-sector
FEMA Tech Sector Deployment Lumberton NC
Sep 20
Members of FEMA Tech Sector Humanity Road, ITDRC and Sprint provided a WIFI hotspot, laptops and communications gear for operation. https://itdrc.org/ see https://www.fema.gov/tech-sector
Wellness Checks
On Sep 22-23: Humanity Road identified five assisted living facilities that could not be reached by phone to confirm evacuation or shelter in place. Wellness checks were performed by members of the joint operation and confirmed residents (291) and staff (76) were ok.
Meal Distribution
Sep 21-29: Allenton Rural Fire Department and surge group volunteers provided approximately 10,000 meals to residents in rural areas. Special thank you to the fire department for also providing meals onsite for volunteers responding.
Relief Center
Sep 25-Ongoing: STORM is operating a resources and relief distribution tent. As of Sep 30, several tons of pantry item relief supplies in pallets have been donated to the relief center including cleaning products, buckets, diapers, baby food, baby wipes, box meals, canned food, hygiene kits, pet food, paper products, fresh vegetables. Several pallets of pre-boxed meal kits for a family of four and hygiene kits have been provided by The Church of Latter day Saints. Other donors have provided shampoo, bar soap case water, gallon water, pallets of bags of water, and pallets of ice. A local donor also has been providing donated fuel in 55 gallon drums to run the generators and supply gas for operations vehicles.
As of Sep 29th, more than 1,000 clients have visited the supply tent . More than 82% of guests were Robeson County residents. Of the Robeson County guests, 84% were from Lumberton, 16% of the visitors were from Bladen County.