The Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts, which sprung out of the need to coordinate recovery efforts after Typhoon Soudelor three years ago, aims to work with recovery agencies again to efficiently aid those who were most affected by Super Typhoon Yutu. <\/p>\n
John Hirsh, a board member of Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts and executive director of the American Red Cross-NMI Chapter, told Saipan Tribune that CARE has been looking at how the non-profit group fits into the plans for the CNMI\u2019s long-term recovery. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe board is still active so every week we\u2019re re-assessing what our role is going to be in terms of long-term recovery. I think our work has to be in close collaboration with the local government and with [the Federal Emergency Management Agency],\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Hirsh said that CARE wants to focus its resources on those who won\u2019t be receiving assistance from FEMA.<\/p>\n
\u201cFEMA has a long-term housing mission and long-term housing program so we\u2019re going to have to see, over the coming weeks, what sort of program are they going to start to implement here or if they\u2019re going to have a program here. Once those kinds of things are established, then we can kind of see how the CARE organization\u2026can fit into that equation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Hirsh said the entire community will receive some kind of support but should remain patient because the road to recovery will be long due to the amount of destruction wrought by Yutu. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re confident and we\u2019re trying to be very positive about the outlook. I think our people here are very resilient and, with the resources from the Red Cross and from all the other agencies on the island, whether they\u2019re non-profit or government or federal\u2026[people are] all getting some level of support to begin this recovery process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recovery is a very long-term process. \u2026It\u2019s going to take years\u2026for everyone to fully recover\u2026 like we learned from Soudelor so I hope the community can continue to stay patient and appreciate their neighbors and their friends and everything people are going through,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
According to a previous article on the Saipan Tribune, CARE would be focusing on individuals who either did not receive enough support from FEMA or are unqualified to be assisted by FEMA.<\/p>\n
CARE was established following the onslaught of Super Typhoon Soudelor and ended its long-term recovery efforts only in August 2018. Altogether, about 600 homes were built by the organization, all for less than $1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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