United Way of the Big Bend extends helping hand

Berneice Cox, President/CEO United Way of the Big Bend Even before the magnitude of Hurricane Idalia was felt in our Big Bend region, United Way of the Big Bend (UWBB) sent out a call for help through the creation of a Disaster Relief Fund and a Disaster Relief Supply Drive. Realizing that the immediate short term, storm-related needs, and the longer-term recovery would be monumental for their neighbors in at least three of the eight-county footprint in which they serve, they didn’t wait to extend a helping hand. Just mere hours after the storm made landfall, United Way of the Big Bend helped the helpers by delivering meals to vital first responders at the Emergency Operations Center