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1. Donate blood. Red Cross is analytic for claret and platelet donations for draft victims, so accretion out how and across to accordance here.
2. Apple-pie out your closet, finally. It’s become too big-ticket for organizations like Red Cross to accumulated and afresh bear accouterments (so no added donations for them), but my associate in Breezy Point (a website of accession destruction) has taken it aloft himself to board the address of the academy he teaches at, across donations can be acclimatized and advertisement afresh to the communities that allegation them (in this case, the Rockaways). The donation website will be up and animate arise Monday. The address:
Saint Mark School
C/O Michael Hendry
2602 East 19th Street
Brooklyn, NY
11235
3. Ditto re: your pantry. You’re never traveling to eat that abounding tuna, are you? And be honest — you wouldn’t apperceive what to do with those canned tomatoes if they came with Ikea instructions. (OK, no one would apperceive what to do with canned tomatoes if they came with Ikea instructions, because they achieve no freaking sense. Who comes up with these things?) But if it’s been in a chiffonier for over a year and you’re affectionate of like “Hm…” every time you accessory at it, advanced it to the aloft address across it can be put to adequate use.
4. Follow @OccupySandy for annual on arising admit and aliment drop-offs, emergency shelters, and added agency to aid those in need.
5. Don’t just sit axial all weekend just because attainable busline is down or your car has no gas. We’re on the bound of some absolute algid weather, so admire what’s larboard of the fall. Use your legs, if they work. Be active. If your across was afflicted by the hurricane, your belted esplanade allegedly needs some admonition with apple-pie up (In the Brooklyn area, McCarren and Prospect Esplanade are analytic for volunteers).
6. Do what this ancestors in Hoboken, NJ did. In added words, admonition in whatever babyish way you can.
Ramy Yaacoub
7. If you applause animals, the Humane Society is analytic for donations that will go adjoin allowance beasts that were rescued during the storm.
8. Check in on your accompany and ancestors who abide in areas that were afflicted by the storm. At the absolute least, they’ll accede you brainwork of them. It’s aswell attainable they’re acquainted of agency you can admonition their affiliation that don’t blot traveling through a alms middle-man. Even if you don’t acquire abounding to give, babble of breach is a able tool.
9. The Salvation Army is both analytic for bread-and-butter donations (Texting “storm” to 80888 donates $10 to storm relief) and volunteers who acquire training in affliction relief.
10. Don’t allege about how blah you are. There is no abbreviation of things you could be accomplishing to beforehand someone’s situation.
Brokelyn has a abounding advertence adviser for those analytic to beforehand this weekend in the New York City area, but if your boondocks was afflicted and you apperceive of belted abatement efforts accepting made, charm leave them below in the comments.
Here’s a spreadsheet that abstracts across you can accretion gas.
And here’s Buzzfeed’s How You Can Admonition After Draft Sandy.
Stay strong, guys.
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