Responding to the Flood Disaster…

Your help is needed, NOW!

Are you able to spare two hours for training and a minimum of a workday to help your neighbor?

In speaking with Andrea Johnston, Executive Director, the American Red Cross, NH West Chapter in Keene, NH needs at least 50 additional trained Disaster Assessment volunteers. There will be a training session tonite, Tuesday, October 11, 2005, at the Chapter office at 83 Court Street from 7 to 9 p.m. No need to reserve your spot, just show up.

Once trained, Assessment Teams will be covering 20 towns in the Monadnock region, going into homes to make initial evaluations of the damage caused by the floods. Working in pairs, the information collected by the volunteers will be used to determine levels of support that will come from a variety of agencies; the American Red Cross (shelter, food and clothing); F.E.M.A., as well as local town governments and social service agencies. Over the course of the next week, it is the goal of the American Red Cross to complete the initial assessments.

Please pass this on to anyone and everyone at your business, service club, church group, book group….and your family and friends. For more information, please call the Red Cross in Keene at 352-3210.

Director of Community Building
Monadnock United Way
23 Center Street
Keene, NH 03431
603.352.4209 (phone)
603.352.0750 (fax)