Grand Isle, Louisiana courtesy of Jefferson Parish
The executive director of the Bayou Community Foundation says the group is focusing its assistance efforts on hard-hit Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. Jennifer Armand says the organization has raised several million dollars thus far. She says they have begun issuing grants “to local non-profits who are providing critical relief services on the ground.”
Armand says money keeps pouring into the foundation’s fund that has helped pay for fuel, food and the various other needs of residents who remain in recovery mode more than two weeks after Ida slammed the two parishes, including Grand Isle. She says that about three million dollars have come into the fund thus far “and we know that every cent will be needed as we look to the weeks, months and year ahead.”
In looking back to last week, Armand says gasoline has been one of the significant needs of those in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. During the first few days of last week, the foundation provided 21,0oo gallons of gasoline to southern Lafourche and southern Terrebonne parishes.
The Bayou Recovery Fund for Hurricane Ida Relief was opened two days before the storm wreaked havoc on southeast Louisiana. If you’d like to donate to the fund you can visit the website bayoucf.org and click on the banner Bayou Recovery Fund.
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