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Six months after Hurricane Michael struck the Florida panhandle and Georgia, Save the Children US continues to help children, caregivers, and families cope and prepare for future disasters. Read on to hear Erica’s recovery story, and the impact of our community’s generous donations and support.
In the wake of #HurricaneMichael, Erica is running one of the few open child care centers in her Florida Panhandle community, much of which has been reduced to ...rubble. On a recent morning, a young couple came to the center, catching their breath as they entered. “We came immediately – you still have a space, don’t you?” they asked Erica. The couple had called 15 minutes before their visit because their former center was forced to close due to mold caused by the storm’s damaging rains. “We’ve called all around and this is the only center with any space still available. If we don’t find somewhere for our children, we can’t go back to work.”
“They don’t just need care, they need quality care,” Erica said, referring to the needs of young parents in the area after the storm. “They need to know their kids will be OK.” Since the storm, Erica has been determined to do just that – to pick up the pieces and, literally, the debris that surrounded her center, so she can get back to providing quality early learning opportunities to her community’s young children.
With the help of the Facebook community and Disaster Response on Facebook, which raised $1.2 million for our Hurricane Michael response and recovery efforts, Erica has been able to get her child care center back up and running. We provided funding to help her staff recover so they could return to work, distributed essential items for area families, like diapers, and replaced damaged educational toys. We are also working to help repair the center’s playground so the kids can once again go outside, laugh and play safely during the day.
“The children really need safe outdoor playtime,” Erica said. “They need some healing sunshine and the chance to work out their stress and expend that pent-up energy. Having that playground equipment will be a big boost toward helping them heal.”
Erica’s recovery story is one of many that would not have been possible without the generous support of the Facebook community. Six months later, we are still working to support and reopen hundreds of child care centers across the Florida Panhandle, so they can once again provide critical early learning opportunities for the region’s kids. Learn more: http://ow.ly/fANT30onyUB
After Tropical Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique the Facebook community activated Safety Check at 8:18PM PM on March 14. Since then, we've seen people across the Facebook community use Crisis Response to mobilize support and help those impacted most. We're inspired by how the community has come together, and to amplify these efforts, Facebook is donating $100K to the IFRC and Mozambique Red Cross to support with the most urgent relief needs, including shelter, water, and sanitation programs.
