{"id":42,"date":"2023-10-10T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdi_163_e00"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:32:18","slug":"inside-disneys-private-island-with-water-parks-beach-bbqs-and-lavish-cabanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayshipping.info\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/inside-disneys-private-island-with-water-parks-beach-bbqs-and-lavish-cabanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer network of truckers, nonprofit partner to deliver disaster-relief supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tax-free donations can be made via Trucks with Room to Spare and CN Supply\u2019s websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Nonprofit trucking groups seek donations, supplies as Hurricane Ian barrels toward Florida. (Photo Credit: Jim Allen\/FreightWaves)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Volunteer network of truckers, nonprofit partner to deliver disaster-relief supplies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nonprofit trucking group is partnering with a volunteer-run disaster-relief organization to collect and eventually deliver critical supplies as Hurricane Ian intensified into a Category 4 system and is expected to pound Florida\u2019s southwest coast late Wednesday morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelli Conaway-Waugh, of Lexington, Kentucky, a 30-year trucking veteran, runs a nonprofit group called Trucks with Room to Spare<\/a>. She works with several relief organizations, including CN Supply, along with her network of truckers and donors, to pick up crucial disaster-relief supplies, which her group will deliver to the hardest hit areas of Florida once Ian has passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs soon as the hurricane hits and the initial search and rescue is over, we\u2019ll start carrying supplies in,\u201d Conaway-Waugh told FreightWaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her group coordinates with drivers who want to volunteer and have space in their trailers to haul a few pallets of supplies if they are headed to the area and asks trucking companies if they could donate a driver and their equipment to pick up and deliver supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donations made to Trucks with Room to Spare\u2019s website<\/a> will support fuel and other costs incurred by truck drivers who volunteer their time<\/a> and their rigs to pick up and deliver critical relief supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her group\u2019s website lists various ways to donate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCash allows us to purchase supplies that we don\u2019t have,\u201d Conaway-Waugh said. \u201cIf people want to do a supply drive, that\u2019s an option too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the group\u2019s website, she has a list of rules and regulations for volunteers who have collected disaster-relief supplies<\/a> to ensure her group can accept the shipments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her one request is no clothing donations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s organizations that bring in tractor-trailer loads full of clothes and that always seems to be the one thing that nobody needs,\u201d she said. \u201cBut cleaning supplies, tents, outdoor cookstoves, shovels, tarps and trash bags are always needed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonprofits partner to provide hurricane relief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Wise, president of CN Supply, describes her nonprofit group as the bridge that connects people who want to donate and give their time or money to help with the people who need their help the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause we are a small group of volunteers, we try to be really intentional with our assistance,\u201d Wise told FreightWaves. \u201cWe really make an effort not to just go in guns blazing into places but kind of wait until after the storm has passed and really assess what are the areas that genuinely need our help.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said there are a lot of organizations that are mobilizing to be able to help with high-water rescues and other disaster-relief efforts, but her group\u2019s approach is to see who needs most the help once the storm has passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of assistance from government agencies and resources on the ground as part of the first wave that comes in to help,\u201d Wise said. \u201cHowever, those resources get pulled out pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many times her group\u2019s assistance is needed in low-income communities that were vulnerable prior to hurricane devastation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow they are in an even worse situation by not having access to utilities, water or electricity for a prolonged period of time,\u201d Wise said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her group focuses on the second wave when CN Supply receives requests from people who still need help because they don\u2019t have access to food, water and other items like feminine hygiene products, diapers, wipes and formula and adult diapers that people forget about because their corner pharmacies or grocery stores are closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo in that second-wave aftermath we are like, \u2018All right, here\u2019s where there\u2019s really a need,\u2019 and we\u2019ll step in and help out,\u201d Wise said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wise is originally from southeast Texas but moved to Washington, D.C., several years ago. She joined CN Supply in 2017 during Hurricane Harvey, which caused heavy flooding and destruction in her hometown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt so helpless that this was happening in my hometown and wanted to help my family and friends in some way, even though I couldn\u2019t be there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to becoming the group\u2019s president, she worked remotely as a high-water dispatcher and supply coordinator and humanitarian aid director for the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ways to donate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some people like to give monetarily online and CN Supply\u2019s website <\/a>has a link to donate, Wise said. Her group partners with volunteer drivers with Trucks with Room to Spare to pick up items from communities, churches, schools or businesses that want to mobilize and have a collection drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell people to buy disaster relief supplies as if they were packing for a family camping trip in remote areas where you wouldn\u2019t have access to stores to buy those items,\u201d Wise said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CN Supply will assist with press releases to local media outlets for collection drive organizers the group partners with. The group will also advertise the donation drives on its social media platforms, Wise said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the wonderful things about partnering with Trucks with Room to Spare is that collection drives can be arranged in areas outside of the storm-impacted communities,\u201d Wise said. \u201cThrough this partnership, we\u2019re able to really be connected as a grassroots community and collect at different points across the country and deliver the supplies to the areas that need it the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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