When natural disasters happen, counties are able to apply for public assistance to receive help with the roads, however; private citizens aren’t always able to apply and receive the help that they need when disasters happen.
However, a collaboration with the Delta Volunteer Hub is a way that residents can work together to help each other when things happen.
Marva Johnson, with Delta Volunteer Hub met with Carroll County Emergency Management and Civil Defense Director Ken Strachan, Chancery Clerk Casey Carpenter, Brent Miller with Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and Supervisor Claude Fluker to tell them the purpose of the Volunteer Hub.
Johnson said that the Hub is under the umbrella of the Community Foundation of Washington County.
“Through our Hub, we now serve a ten-county region across the Delta including Carroll, Bolivar, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington, and Yazoo counties. As the Director of the Delta Hub for Volunteers and Nonprofits,” Johnson said. “I target training and capacity building for nonprofit organizations, assist with the recruitment of volunteers for services and programming, the facilitation of marketing and promotion of events, volunteer needs for our partner nonprofits, and funding opportunities. “
Johnson told the men Carroll County could form a volunteer team and an executive board of 30 people from each of the Supervisor’s beats. Those people who be the responders when disaster struck the area. Because Carroll County is prone to flooding, and has had several floods in recent years that have washed out roads and caused damage to homes, the volunteer hub could be of good used to the county.
Strachan said they would present the idea to the rest of the supervisors and the board would proceed from there.
