How to Donate and Help Hurricane Harvey Victims
Red Cross grants are helping to fuel home repair and rebuilding services; mental health services, especially for children; local Long-Term Recovery Committees, legal advocacy groups and financial counseling; and assistance for people with disabilities; the elderly and those who cannot access government services.Aug 19, 2019
Watt raised more than $37 million in 2017 to help rebuild Houston after Hurricane Harvey. Texans star J.J. Watt and his foundation have provided a two-year update on his $37 million Hurricane Harvey relief fund and reported that the money has helped rebuild more than 1,183 homes in the Houston area.Aug 29, 2019
That includes $522.7 million by the Red Cross; $114 million by the Greater Houston Community Foundation; $100 million by the Rebuild Texas Fund, which was seeded and created by the foundation of computer magnate Michael Dell; $87.5 million by the evangelical group Samaritan's Purse; $61.4 million by United Way; $41.6 ...Aug 27, 2018
Three years after Harvey, some Houston residents feel angry and abandoned as their repair efforts were bogged down by a city program they described as slow and bureaucratic. The program has finished rebuilding less than 70 homes since it started January 2019.Aug 24, 2020
And when the city of Houston experienced one of its worst devastations, Hurricane Harvey, Watt started a recovery fund to help residents in need. The goal of that fund was to raise $200,000. It ended up bringing in more than $40 million with donations from around the world.Feb 13, 2021
The funds raised last year were used for the following: The cleanup, repair and rebuilding of over 600 homes. The recovery and rebuilding of over 420 childcare centers and after-school programs, serving over 16,000 children.Aug 31, 2019
Most know about Watt raising more than $41 million to help victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston in 2017, flooding a significant part of the city and the area around it and causing millions of dollars of damage.Mar 3, 2021
$119 millionAUSTIN, Texas – In the two years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded more than $119 million to the City of Houston for emergency protective measures taken after Hurricane Harvey's landfall.
The Justin J. Watt Foundation assists schools with after-school programs in an effort to provide activities and sports in a safe manner. His foundation also hosts a charity softball game that has been played previously at Minute Maid Park.Jan 5, 2021
Among the other findings: 41.9% said their homes were damaged by Hurricane Harvey. Of those, slightly more than 40% had to move out of their homes, at least temporarily. 60% of those who moved out are now back in their homes.Aug 23, 2020
After the rains subside, the long, slow process of recovery will begin. Redlener estimates it could take 15 years to heal the wounds Harvey has inflicted. Tens of thousands of Texans are in need of shelter, and the flooding has caused billions of dollars in damage.Aug 29, 2017
With Harvey, an estimated 13 million people were affected, nearly 135,000 homes damaged or destroyed in the historic flooding, and up to a million cars were wrecked.Sep 7, 2018