Red Cross will spend a year supporting victims of the rains in Rio Grande do Sul

The Red Cross, popular name for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, announced from its headquarters, located in the Swiss Confederation, that it will release the equivalent of R$45.5 million reais to help victims of the rains in Rio Grande do South, which have already reached almost 90% of the state's territory and killed more than 100 people, in addition to leaving thousands homeless.

_{Improvised stand for registering volunteers in RS (Photo: reproduction/Günther Schöler/Agência RBS)}

Prolonged help

According to the organization, a one-year support plan was drawn up for the people of the South, which, together with the money raised, aimed at rebuilding the cities and places affected by the floods. The target audience for the action will be single mothers with young children, people with disabilities and the elderly, who will receive help to rebuild their homes or start from scratch. The priority group is made up of people who have lower incomes than more structured families and who will have more difficulty getting work during the state's reconstruction process as they have personal limitations that are more difficult to overcome.

_{Firefighters rescue mare from flood (Photo: reproduction/RS Fire Department)}

Heavy work

Since the beginning of the calamity, several Red Cross teams have already traveled to RS to help search for the missing and to work in the shelters set up, helping with food and clinical-psychological care for families who arrive shaken after losing everything they had. and being forced to leave their homes, usually kept in the family for generations. Furthermore, the group has been investing in water and cleaning materials, and intends to work on raising awareness of how environments should be sanitized after the flood that destroyed entire cities. The head of the Southern Cone Delegation of the Red Cross also stated that the group seeks to satisfy the population's most basic needs, such as blankets, cleaning products, clothes and even candles and lamps.

Featured photo: Red Cross volunteers deliver food to an island resident (Reproduction/Cruz Vermelha)