BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – The Vermont Community Foundation is working to help those hit hardest by yet another round of devastating flooding.
The Vermont Flood Response & Recovery Fund was established following last year’s floods. They continue to work with nonprofit organizations and the state to identify how to help.
Right now, they are assessing areas with the most acute needs, such as destroyed homes, people in need of food and shelter, and disrupted businesses.
“It’s figuring out how people are going to get from place to place at some of the remote, most remote corners of our state. I think the challenge of this set of flooding is that it is really affecting people on the furthest reaches, and so we have to work really hard to make sure that those experiences don’t go away, so many other experiences in rural Vermont have remained invisible,” said Dan Smith, the CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation.
They ask anyone who needs help to call 211 and encourage Vermonters to look out for one another and give where they can. Click here to find out how you can help.