More help airlifted to Hurricane Harvey victims

More help is coming to Hurricane Harvey victims thanks to local groups which said they couldn’t just stand by doing nothing while others suffered.

El Centro Rotary Club President Kris Becker said her club joined the Imperial Valley Breakfast Club and the Kona Club in Hawaii to collect over $3,500 worth of emergency supplies. They loaded them on an airplane Saturday morning.

“Fly some relief supplies to Rockport, Texas, which was very hard hit by hurricane Harvey. Pencils and school supplies for the kids, cleaning supplies, gloves to help with the cleanup of the residences.” Becker said.

I.V. Rotary Breakfast Club President Kelly Smith said, “We got a lot of supplies for children. So, for instance, I have a 5-year-old, the thought of being in a place where you would have to have your child on a counter top and wait to be rescued and everything is gone the next day. You don’t have clothes; you don’t have diapers maybe for a child.”

The Imperial Valley Mokulele Airlines donated the flight which should be arriving in Texas Saturday evening.

Mokulele Airlines President Rob McKinney said, “These are much needed supplies that we were told are the top of the priority list for the victims of hurricane Harvey in the eastern Texas area.”

These donors say they are personally touched by the emergency.

“The devastation, the flooding. Just so many people out of their homes and entire neighborhoods underwater, it was just overwhelming to see,” Becker said.

“I have lots of friends that live in that area. I also used to live in Texas myself. It was very personal to me that so many people had lost so much and there was so much suffering,” McKinney said.

The website Fortune.com said Hurricane Harvey has killed 50 people, displaced more than one million, and caused nearly 180 billion dollars in damages.