Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Food boxes, personal care and cleaning supplies donated by the Church of Christ
$72,000 dollars worth of flood relief supplies were delivered to Waitsburg and found a home in a neighbor's garage.
The Walla Walla Church of Christ reached out to Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort, Inc. for assistance and the nonprofit organization sent a semi-truck full of flood relief supplies from Nashville, Tenn. The supplies arrived in Waitsburg on Monday, Feb. 17. Two volunteers drove 2,200 miles with the supplies valued at $72,000.
Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort immediately responds to any major disaster in the continental United States. They contact the leadership of local Churches of Christ in or near a major disaster area. If the leadership says their local congregation wants to help, they send and turn over to that congregation truckloads of emergency food, personal hygiene, infant care, water, cleaning supplies, and pallets of additional basic needs, for them to distribute to the disaster victims.
Included in the delivery are multiple blankets, brooms, box fans, food boxes designed to feed one family of four for one week, which include such shelf-stable staples as instant rice and coffee, granola bars, crackers, pinto beans, chili mac, tuna, fruit cocktail, peanut butter, instant mashed potatoes, oatmeal, and pasta and more.
Buckets filled with cleaning supplies including cleaning brushes, enzyme spray, sponges, disposable gloves, rags, spray wipe cleaner/detergent and disposable gloves were also part of the shipment. Additionally, there are boxes of personal care supplies with toothpaste, soap, shampoo, etc. included in the donation.
The McGregor Co. donated the use of a forklift and operator to complete the transfer of supplies to a nearby home. The homeowner is donating the space to the relief efforts "until it's all gone." she said "I went down and donated some stuff to the church, I happened to be sitting there when they got the call (about the truckload of supplies)" and she immediately offered up her garage which had recently been cleaned out in advance of putting the home up for sale.
If you are in need of supplies, contact Matt Wyatt (916) 622-9932.
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