K.I.D.S. Announces Hurricane Irene Relief Efforts In Support Of Local Communities Affected Along East Coast

K.I.D.S. ANNOUNCES HURRICANE IRENE RELIEF EFFORTS
Supports Local Communities Affected all Along East Coast
New York, N.Y., August 29, 2011 – Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) announced that it is working with communities all along the East Coast – with particular priority on New Jersey and Vermont – to help in local recovery. Over the next few days and weeks K.I.D.S. will assess the types of product needed to reestablish a normal and functioning life in communities hardest hit by Hurricane Irene and will distribute directly to community-based agencies clothes, shoes, home goods, personal care items and other product necessary for recovery.
For information on how to donate or help, please visit www.kidsdonations.org, or contact Cristina Morais at 212-279-5493, ext. 204, cmorais@kidsdonations.org. Further information and up to the minute reports can also be found on the K.I.D.S. website www.kidsdonations.org.
K.I.D.S. was created in 1985 to respond to disaster relief in Ethiopia and since then has provided needed products to victims of natural disasters in the United States and around the world. K.I.D.S. works with locally based agencies to immediately distribute items required to overcome the devastation on families created by uprooting and dislocation from disasters. During the tsunami, Katrina and in Haiti K.I.D.S. expeditiously directed millions of dollars worth of new clothes, homegoods, undergarments and other product to relieve the burden of families trying to reconstruct their lives both in the short and long term. During this disaster, K.I.D.S. is ready again to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the victims.
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About Kids in Distressed Situations
For 26 years, K.I.D.S. has provided 67 million underprivileged and disaster-struck children with over one billion dollars of NEW clothing, toys, basic necessities, juvenile products, books and much more. The donations of new products are distributed through an established network of nearly 1,000 local community social service agencies in the U.S. and abroad. K.I.D.S.’ efforts reach youth, age 0-18, and their families who are challenged by poverty, homelessness, domestic abuse, low literacy, military family service, major illness, incarcerated family members and disaster survival. More information about donating new products and supporting our work is available online at www.KIDSdonations.org.