Real recovery takes time and "relief needs to continue long after the cameras are packed up and the media moves on."
California Communtiy Foundation outlines how to educate yourself on funding here.
How you can directly help with the Red Cross.
"The president showed up and threw paper towels into the crowd, and now we have an earthquake and continuing tremors, and once again the federal government hasn't showed up the way they should."
(NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo)
Read further on the earthquakes and deductions here.
and direct relief with information here.
"Living outside or in cramped conditions was concerning enough during the pandemic... But now hurricane season is starting. They cannot be inside their house. They cannot be outside their house. These people are not safe."
(Ivonne Rodriquez-Wiewall,
Direct Relief's Puerto Rico Advisor)
Information from Direct Relief now that Puerto Rico
has taken one of the country's hardest economic hits.
How you can directly help with UNIDOS.
Puerto Ricans, while considered American citizens, still have little say in federal policy as residents of a US territory. So, the aid process struggles to be "based on the people and what the people need."
COVID-19 statistics for Puerto Rico.
Read on the droughts and poverty rates that differ from the time of Hurricane Maria here.