Thank you so much for your willingness to volunteer with NECHAMA – Jewish Response to Disaster in Kentucky. We had a productive mobilization on June 1st helping to clean up a farm near Somerset, but now have been advised by emergency management officials in both communities and our partners on the ground, that relief work has moved more quickly than anticipated and now has shifted to cleanup with heavy machinery (i.e. the entire homes were destroyed), so, therefore, our skillset is no longer needed.
We really appreciate your willingness to help out. This likely won’t be the last time that we ask for assistance as tornadoes and floods regularly impact this part of the country. If you are interested in volunteering with us now, it is a little further, but we are still maintaining a major deployment in Buncombe and Henderson Counties, North Carolina (near Asheville) in the wake of Hurricane Helene. We will be in this region at least through September, the anniversary of that horrendous storm. If this is something that you are interested in, please reach out to our Volunteer Engagement Coordinator Robyn Waserman: [email protected].