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ian - A perfect example
ian - A perfect example
Hurricane Ian was a high-end category 4 storm with 150-mile-per-hour winds that struck southwest Florida on September 28, 2022. On October 3rd, we were asked to assist.
What does access to beds and showers mean to communities and organizations looking to provide that help? Wintergarden Presbyterian Church in Port Charlotte, FL, sustained over $600,000 in damage, but they also knew they wanted to host long-term disaster-recovery volunteers from SBP. The church needed to build bunk beds, convert two rooms to house teams, and convert an outside storage room into a 2-stall shower room. They also knew these projects would take some time to complete, and that volunteers couldn't start rebuilding homes until they were done.
December 5th, their electrician installed outlets to power Dorm Trailer-3 and Shower Trailer-6. SBP volunteers are scheduled to arrive on December 6th to set up camp and begin taking work orders. Volunteers can now begin restoring damaged homes up to 30 to 60 days earlier than originally expected. The rooms the church planned to convert into bunk rooms can now be used as an office and a dining room for the volunteers. The funds planned to convert the rooms and build beds are now available to continue helping their community.
Over two and a half years, we helped enable more than 30,000 volunteer hours and $4.9 million in savings.
This is why we do what we do, and this is the impact your financial support for our mission has on communities affected by disaster.
Image: Fort Myers Beach, FL, after Hurricane Ian.
OUR MISSION:
OUR MISSION:
Our mission is to provide portable showers and living quarters trailers to nonprofit and local government organizations to bolster their disaster response and community outreach at little or no cost to the organization or user.
Our mission is to provide portable showers and living quarters trailers to nonprofit and local government organizations to bolster their disaster response and community outreach at little or no cost to the organization or user.
OUR OBJECTIVE:
OUR OBJECTIVE:
Our goal is to partner with local churches, church conferences, non-profit organizations, and state and local governments to support their humanitarian relief needs as soon as we are called and to stay on-site as long as the mission requires.
Our goal is to partner with local churches, church conferences, non-profit organizations, and state and local governments to support their humanitarian relief needs as soon as we are called and to stay on-site as long as the mission requires.
OUR reasoning:
OUR reasoning:
We hear it all the time, "you could be making a lot of money", or "I bet that pays really well".
But here's the deal: we do NOT take federal, state, or local tax dollars when we respond to a disaster.
Why? States dealing with a federally declared disaster receive funding from FEMA. The state must match 25% of that with its own tax dollars. Every trailer we deploy and every volunteer labor hour we make possible by housing volunteers count toward the 25% state match.
This saves taxpayer funds! So much so that, since 2019, our combined impact (trailer usage and volunteer labor housed) exceeds $15M!
We hear it all the time, "you could be making a lot of money", or "I bet that pays really well".
But here's the deal: we do NOT take federal, state, or local tax dollars when we respond to a disaster.
Why? States dealing with a federally declared disaster receive funding from FEMA. The state must match 25% of that with its own tax dollars. Every trailer we deploy and every volunteer labor hour we make possible by housing volunteers count toward the 25% state match.
This saves taxpayer funds! So much so that, since 2019, our combined impact (trailer usage and volunteer labor housed) exceeds $15M!
We provide all of our services for little to no cost.
Is our fleet the solution to your humanitarian relief mission?
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