Red Cross Helps South Carolina Flooding Victims - Update: October 14, 2015

Photo by Danuta Otfinowski/American Red Cross

As many as 240 people spent Tuesday night in 9 Red Cross and community shelters in South Carolina where they can find a safe and dry place to sleep, food to eat, health services and emotional support. More than 800 Red Cross workers, 56 response vehicles and shelter supplies for 5,000 people have been mobilized for South Carolina.

The Red Cross is distributing comfort kits containing personal hygiene items as well as cleaning supplies such as tarps, flashlights, trash bags, shovels, rakes, bleach and work gloves. Red Cross caseworkers are meeting one-on-one with people to help them plan their recovery and connect them with resources.

Since the flooding began, the Red Cross has worked with community partners to:

• Serve more than106,500 meals and snacks
• Hand out more than 78,000 relief items
• Provide more than 2,700 health and mental health services

HOW TO HELP The Red Cross depends on the continued support of the public to help people affected by disasters big and small. People can help by donating to Red Cross Disaster Relief to support disasters big and small by visiting redcross.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS or texting the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Donations to Disaster Relief will be used to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from disasters big and small.

The American Red Cross distributes cleaning supplies, shovels, tarps, buckets and large containers at a bulk distribution site.

Photo by Jeanette Ortiz-Osorio/American Red Cross