Volunteers Needs

Why are we asking you to volunteer? 

 As a volunteer, you are not just helpful; you are absolutely essential in the wake of this devastating catastrophe because you provide the surge capacity and specialized skills that overwhelmed government and professional agencies cannot muster alone.

Here are the primary reasons why we are asking you to volunteer

1. Augmenting Overwhelmed Resources

• Sheer Numbers (Manpower): This catastrophe has created a need on a massive scale (debris removal, sorting donations, setting up shelters, distributing food). Government and professional first-responder organizations (like police, fire, and FEMA) simply do not have enough staff to handle the scope of destruction and immediate human needs across many affected communities simultaneously. Volunteers like you provide the necessary workforce.

• Cost-Effectiveness: Volunteers dedicate their time and labor for free, allowing limited relief funds to be stretched further and to be used for essential material needs like food, water, and building supplies.

2. Filling Critical Skill Gaps

• Specialized Expertise: Disasters require skilled labor (carpentry, electrical, plumbing, heavy equipment operation) for immediate stabilization and long-term rebuilding. Professional organizations cannot deploy enough of these tradespeople quickly. Volunteers like you bring these specialized, technical skills to the recovery effort.

• Diverse Roles: Beyond construction, volunteers fill gaps in medical support (doctors, nurses, aides), emotional support, logistics, communications, and administration.

3. Immediate and Long-Term Recovery

• Immediate Response: Volunteers are often the first on the scene, even before official relief arrives, providing neighbors-helping-neighbors assistance, light search and rescue, and immediate comfort.

• Long-Term Commitment (The Marathon): Media attention fades quickly, but recovery can take years. Parish Ground Global Ministries Inc and our volunteers will continue on the ground long after the initial crisis to assist with the slow, difficult process of debris cleanup, rebuilding homes, and providing continuous support.

4. Community and Social Resilience

• Hope and Solidarity: Your presence provides a powerful psychological boost to the community, demonstrating that they are not forgotten, and fosters a crucial sense of community, solidarity, and hope, which is vital for emotional healing.

• Local Knowledge: Working with Parish ground Global Ministries Inc as a volunteer means you are working with an organization and personnel who are from the area and  possess intimate knowledge of the people, the communities, language, and culture, and needs, enabling a more targeted and effective response. 

You, our volunteer in this devastating catastrophe, you, our volunteers, are the human engine that powers the massive, immediate response and the tireless, long-term reconstruction required to restore the lives and infrastructure of Siloah and the surrounding communities.