Project 5: Helping Hand Houston

After Hurricane Harvey ravaged through townships throughout Houston, Texas, people were left displaced without access to power and clean water. In conjunction with Helping Hand Houston, we dispatched thousands of gallons of safe drinking water to those communities.

On 25 August 2017, the catastrophic category 4 storm came with squalling winds at 130 mph and dumped more than 27 trillion gallons of rain over Texas, making Harvey the wettest Atlantic hurricane ever measured. Some parts of Houston received more than 50 inches of rainfall in 48 hours. Harvey stalled over South and Southeast Texas for days Instead of moving inland and farther away from the coast, producing devastating and deadly flash and river flooding which destroyed infrastructure and homes.

We worked with organisations and individuals in the community of Belmont, North Carolina to show love to the citizens of the Lone Star State.  A Stuff-A-Truck event was organised to collect needed supplies to be shipped to the centres that are housing evacuees around Texas.  Mite is joining the Stuff-A-Truck cause by committing to supply a much-needed item- water. By giving your Mite it helped us to send thousands of gallons of life-sustaining water to evacuees displaced by Harvey and the horrific flooding!