Habitat for Humanity International Visitor

Our affiliate was visited this week by Ed Carr, a disaster recovery expert from Habitat for Humanity International. Mr. Carr came to assess Minot's flood damage and determine what additional resources HFHI could direct toward our flood recovery.

Mr. Carr toured the flood zone for a first hand view of the scale of this disaster. He visited with local flood recovery oriented groups and was in constant contact with HFHI's Disaster Response office. He finished his visit with a clear understanding that flood impacted families will require additional flood recovery assistance.

Northern Lights Habitat for Humanity is diligently working and coordinating with other disaster response organizations to help flood impacted families to return to their home. Once Mr. Carr reports his findings to HFHI we will learn what additional resources may be available to us. 

Habitat Flood Recovery Efforts

While Habitat for Humanity is not specifically a disaster response organization, we have responded to the terrible damage from last summer's flooding. In light of this disaster, we have widened the focus of our core mission to provide building assistance to qualified flood victims. This assistance includes, clean up of flood debris, gutting flooded homes, salvaging of usable items from houses scheduled for demolition, construction of storage sheds, and other assistance as needed.

We are working in cooperation with other disaster response groups in our area, but due to limited resources we are unable to respond to every need. Still, our goal is to assist as many flood victims as possible in returning to their homes as quickly as possible. Flooded homeowners seeking assistance should contact the Habitat for Humanity office in Minot.