Our hearts are heavy this week. Our house state of North Carolina was hit so laborious by Hurricane Helene.
Volunteers are working across the clock to supply ample shelter, meals, and water to canines and cats (and people) in want. Nevertheless, the sources are extraordinarily restricted, together with operating water, energy, and web.
Fortunately, the storm didn’t severely injury the Asheville Humane Society‘s (AHS) services. Nevertheless, an absence of potable water made it troublesome to take care of animals within the Buncombe County Animal Shelter.
Consequently, AHS has flown round 100 animals to Forsyth Humane Society (in our hometown of Winston-Salem) to maintain them protected in shelters and foster properties away from the destruction.
How You Can Assist
2 main wants of the AHS presently are fuel + financial donations by way of their Venmo @ashevillehumane
Canine Journal donated pet food to the Asheville and Watauga County (Boone) Humane Society throughout these troublesome occasions.
Listed below are the hyperlinks to Amazon want lists for NC shelters:
- ASHEVILLE: right here and right here
- BOONE: right here
- FORSYTH: right here (accumulating to drop objects to Western NC shelters in want)
Please unfold the phrase and provides you probably have the means. And you probably have suffered from this storm, our hearts exit to you.
