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United Way helps hurricane victims
PRESS RELEASE DATE: MARCH 23, 2007
United Way of Martin County will make a
special grant of $11,000 to Indiantown Non-Profit Housing Inc. (INPHI)
to help up to 15 families move out of FEMA trailers.
FEMA has issued an April 24 deadline for
these families – victims of Hurricane Wilma -- to move. INPHI, a
United Way affiliated agency, has been handling the families’
case management thanks to a grant from the Volunteer Florida
Foundation, but the agency needs separate funding for relocation
assistance.
The United Way funds will be used to pay
for first, last, security and related moving expenses to help
families moving out of FEMA temporary housing as a result of
Hurricane Wilma.
The United Way assistance, approved by the
board of directors at its March 21 meeting, will come out of a
special pool of funds designated for hurricane relief.
“With this financial support, we have
confidence that Indiantown Non-Profit Housing will be able to
successfully relocate these families,” said Jim Vojcsik,
executive director of United Way of Martin County. “They were
able to relocate 29 families that lost their homes in Hurricane
Frances and Jeanne.”
This is the second month in a row that the
local United Way board of directors has approved a special grant
for disaster-related relief.
At its February meeting, the board approved
a special grant of $13,020 to the American Red Cross Martin
County Chapter to purchase a kitchen support trailer that would
help speed aid to victims of disaster.
In regard to its ongoing support of partner
agencies, United Way of Martin County has extended its annual
campaign another month in an attempt to raise the final $100,000
needed to reach its $2.2 million goal for 2006-07.
For more information about United Way of
Martin County, call (772) 283-4800 or visit
www.unitedwaymartincounty.org.
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