The week before Thanksgiving, Jeannine Joy started noticing a discernible shift from the frenzied changing-bythe minute needs prevalent throughout Southwest Florida during the first six weeks post-Hurricane Ian. Instead of scrambling to find emergency housing, get displaced employees qualified for food stamps and procure necessities, by late November the United Way of Lee, Hendry
COURTESY PHOTOSBA loans in Florida recently surpassed $1 billion with Southwest Florida receiving the lion’s share. By Nanci Theoret Special to Florida Weekly The week before Thanksgiving, Jeannine Joy started noticing a discernible shift from the frenzied changing-by-the-minute needs prevalent throughout Southwest Florida during the first six weeks post-Hurricane Ian. Instead of scrambling to find
More than a month after Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida, there are still so many organizations and people that need help like the United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades Counties.
We learn about the work being done right now by The United Way of Lee, Hendry, Glades and Okeechobee. They’re partnering with the Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers which is raising money through the SWFL Emergency Relief Fund. To get a sense of what they’re focusing on right now, and the work they’re doing managing the 2-1-1 Crisis Helpline, we talk Jeannine Joy, President and CEO of The United Way of Lee, Hendry, Glades, and Okeechobee.We also get a first-take on Hurricane Ian’s ecological impact. Ian brought historic storm surge levels in excess of 12 feet in some places. It’s the kind of storm surge emergency managers say they’ve always feared but that we’ve never really experienced in this part of Florida.
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