AHAH Monthly Program Update - Texas (January 2021)

TEXAS HURRICANE RELIEF UPDATE JANUARY 2021

TOTAL PROGRAM IMPACT TO DATE

2,181 397

LIVES IMPACTED SITES WORKED ON

19,809

VOLUNTEER DAYS

557

JOBS COMPLETED

Current Activities Our team has now completed six high-quality, interior home repairs thanks to continued hard work and commitment through the holidays!

Our first cohort of DM12 volunteers completed their service and departed at the end of 2020. Due to COVID-19 concerns and reduced volunteer interest, we’ll continue operations using an all-staff model for now.

Community Stories Deborah and Jay Rodriguez, and their son, were living without a floor and unfinished walls for years as a result of Hurricane Harvey. In the past year, they repaired the roof and leveled the home, but the interior was still unfinished.

Just in time for the holidays, we finished the inside of Deborah and Jay’s home with new floors, kitchen cabinets and a fresh paint job. The previous kitchen had plywood cabinets and shelves, so Deborah was particularly excited because she said she’s “never had real cabinets before.”

Photos: (top and left) Deborah and Jay’s brand new floor, kitchen cabinets and paint job nearing completion.

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Disaster Profile Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017, near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 storm that produced a record 52" of rain and 130-mph winds. One third of Houston was completely flooded, with an estimated 136,000 homes affected in Harris County alone. The Coastal Bend region was hit especially hard, and experienced $4.5 billion in damage to an estimated 39,927 structures.

Our Work Thanks to critical support from donors, partners and volunteers, we’ve worked in Houston and Coastal Bend since the immediate days after Hurricane Harvey. During the response phase, our teams were able to complete an impactful 16-week response program in Coastal Bend and an 18-week program in Houston.

Since February 2018, our commitment to the recovery effort has concentrated site supervisors and volunteers on constructing high quality interior repair.

About All Hands and Hearts We effectively and efficiently address the immediate and long-term needs of communities impacted by natural disasters. We communicate directly with local leaders and community members and then deploy our unique model of engaging volunteers to enable direct impact, helping to build safer, more resilient schools, homes and infrastructure.

We have earned a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator for the seventh year in a row. This year only seven percent of rated non-profits received this distinction for financial and operational efficiency.

Our Partners in Texas

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