For immediate release. World Vision is assisting volunteer groups from throughout the country to help families clean out flood-damaged homes as part of an effort to provide relief aid to residents along the Red River in North Dakota and Minnesota. Adults and teenagers able to volunteer between one day and two weeks are needed in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, where floods have driven 8,400 of 8,600 residents from their homes.
Families trying to move back into their flooded homes face an overwhelming job.
Among the agencies World Vision is working with are the Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, United Methodist Committee on Relief, Christian Volunteers of Minnesota, Mendenhall Presbyterian Church and Valley Christian Center. Junghans has recruited volunteers from area congregations who will begin clean-up efforts this weekend. YouthWorks, a Christian organization based in Minneapolis that coordinates short-term summer service projects, will bring at least 200 young people from throughout the country to the flooded area over the next few months. World Vision also is providing clothing, mattresses and personal care items such as toothpaste and shampoo to families displaced by floods, as well as cleaning supplies needed to restore flooded homes.