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</p><p><p>In less than a month, Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston, has been able to come together as a community to help those who needed rescue, return to homes that have been uninhabitable in an attempt to tear out and rebuild and work with other communities providing material and monetary donations.</p>
</p><p><p>Katy ISD (<a href="http://www.katyisd.org/" target="_blank">www.katyisd.org</a>) reopened to students on Monday, September 11, 2017 with some accommodations having been made for students of an elementary school that was completely flooded and currently unusable. Those students have been moved to a new high school meant to serve 11th and 12th grade students.</p>
</p><p><p>Beginning on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 through Friday, September 29, 2017, Project Neighbors and Valpo Kids for Katy will begin the process of accepting donations to help Katy with their efforts to rebuild the city that they love.</p>
</p><div class='align-center only-small disperse-ad-top'></div><p><p>Project Neighbors has reached out to Katy, Texas with a promise of assistance in a way that makes the most sense to Katy. Working Simon Vandyke, Public Information Officer with Harris County Fire ESD 48, we are gathering information about those material items that would be most helpful over the next 10-15 days. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1028200813897589&amp;ref=br_rs" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1028200813897589&amp;ref=br_rs</a></p>
</p><p><p>In addition, Valpo Kids for Katy has been in contact with Katy ISD to better identify those items most needed for the students who lost everything that they had gathered to prepare for their return to school shortly before Harvey entered their homes.</p>
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</p><p><p>Donate at the following “Donation Locations” based on the items being collected at each of those “Donation Locations”*</p>
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</p><p><li><strong>Living Hope Church —</strong> Diapers and wipes</li>
</p><p><li><strong>Cotton Cottage Quilts —</strong> Diapers and wipes</li>
</p><p><li><strong>Flanagin’s Bulk Mail —</strong> Boxes of drywall screws or nails. Any items that can be used for mudding drywall.</li>
</p><p><li><strong>YMCA —</strong> Muck buckets (Plastic water buckets, rubber gloves, any products that help to combat mold, and especially important…respirator masks which are currently in great need and unavailable for any extended length of time in the Houston area)</li>
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</p><p><p><em>*This list will be update as other “Donation Locations” as established and reflect the useful items we are directed to collect</em></p>
</p><div class='align-center only-small disperse-ad-mid'></div><p><p>Donate online at <a href="http://www.projectneighbors.org/" target="_blank">www.projectneighbors.org</a></p>
</p><p><p>Indicate that your donation is for “Valpo Kids for Katy”</p>
</p><p><p>Be open and friendly to the young people who will be asking for donations at local businesses. They are brave to ask and their willingness to do this is a sign that Valparaiso’s next generation in on the path to community engagement and volunteerism</p></p><div class='align-center only-small disperse-ad-bot'></div><a name="addcomments"></a><plugin name=fcomment version=1.7.27/><div id="fb-root"></div><script type="text/javascript">
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