Samaritan Center Donors Meet Haitian Aid Matching Fund Goal
2/5/10
OOLTEWAH, TN—The Samaritan Center is excited to announce
that our community has reached the $8,000 goal we set for our Haitian Disaster
Aid Matching Fund. This means that we will be sending $16,000 in disaster aid
towards the Haitian relief efforts.
Since Hurricane Katrina, the Center’s disaster relief fund
had been accumulating. When we heard about the great need in Haiti, we knew we wanted to use that money to help with Haitian disaster relief.
The total in our fund was $8,000, so we decided to set up a
matching fund to invite the community to give. We asked our local ministerial
association to recommend organizations for the funds to benefit, and that is
how we decided on:
ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency)
IDES (International Disaster Emergency Service)
PDA (Presbyterian Disaster Assistance)
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief)
The checks were put in the mail Jan. 29, so hopefully
relief from our donations will reach Haiti as soon as possible. Please contact
Executive Director Tony Dahlberg at 423.618.7362 if you would like more
information.
The Samaritan Center is a social services agency in Ooltewah
that helped more than 4,100 individuals in Eastern Hamilton County in 2009 with basic needs like food, rent, utilities, and personal care items. Through
this special matching effort, we feel privileged to have a small part in
helping Haitians in much worse conditions have some of their basic needs met as
well.
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