Home Depot Volunteers Prep Cleanup Kits For Hurricane Victims

ATLANTA, GA -- Hundreds of Home Depot volunteers created nearly 2,400 cleanup kits for homeowners affected by Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. With support from Convoy of Hope and Herobox, volunteers from the retailer’s hometown of Atlanta packaged critical supplies in The Home Depot Homer buckets including scrub brushes, microfiber towels, gloves, respirators and trash bags for distribution to impacted communities. Associates personalized each kit by writing notes of hope and encouragement for recipients on every bucket.

Convoy of Hope delivered the cleanup kits to Wilmington and Lumberton, N.C. in response to Hurricane Florence. This volunteer project is a part of The Home Depot’s commitment to helping communities rebuild after natural disasters. Most recently, The Home Depot Foundation increased its financial support to $3 million for disaster relief efforts and communities impacted by recent disasters, including Hurricane Florence, Olivia, the California wildfires and flooding in the Midwest.

The Home Depot Foundation works to improve the homes and lives of U.S. veterans, train skilled tradespeople to fill the labor gap and support communities impacted by natural disasters. Since 2011, the Foundation has invested a quarter of a billion dollars in veteran-related causes and improved more than 40,000 veteran homes and facilities in 2,700 cities. In 2018, the Foundation committed an additional $50 million dollars to train 20,000 skilled tradespeople over the next 10 years starting with separating military members and veterans, at-risk youth and residents of Atlanta’s Westside community.

Convoy of Hope is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a driving passion to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreach and disaster response. Convoy of Hope has responded to more than 360 international and domestic disasters to date, delivering more than 516 tractor-trailer loads of relief supplies in 2017 alone. Millions of survivors have been helped thanks to the local churches, businesses, government agencies and other nonprofits, donors and volunteers who make Convoy of Hope’s work possible.

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