World Vision volunteers carry buckets of bleach for sanitizing household items retrieved from the floodwaters in Grand Forks. World Vision is seeking volunteer groups from throughout the country to help families clean out flood-damaged homes as part of its continuing efforts to provide relief aid to residents along the Red River in North Dakota and Minnesota. World Vision's clean-up efforts are focused in East Grand Forks, Minnesota where floods have displaced 8,400 of the 8,600 residents.
Families trying to move back into their flooded homes face an overwhelming job.
World Vision hopes to coordinate the efforts of more than 1,500 volunteers through June. She will serve as a flood clean-up volunteer in East Grand Forks, Minnesota from June 3 to 6. She will return to Rapid City on Sunday, June 8 as keynote speaker at the Rapid City flood 25th anniversary observances. That flood claimed 238 lives. I know what devastation this type of loss can bring, and I want to do what I can to return a small part of the invaluable support we received.