Let's Heal & Help Others Together

We have all been invited to  embrace gratitude, grace, and healing as we continue to wonder and co-curate a world where people are not defined by white supremacist culture.  During these times may we be grateful  for the ability to holistically heal from our wounds. May we heal with grace and gratitude. May we continue to learn and practice to have grace for ourselves and our process of healing.

This year has shown us the power of taking time to pause, to reflect, to mourn, to service ourselves and others, to grow, and to heal.  As continue to learn how to engage with one another through a pandemic we are also called to navigate two hurricanes in the Gulf Coast of the United States. Wishing the last six months people of the African Diaspora have mourned the passing of trailblazers, family, friends, and community members due to gun violence, police brutality, COVID-19, and the impacts of natural disasters within the last six months.

We are currently working to assist people displaced and impacted on the Gulf Texas and Louisiana.  We seek to continue our cultural mindful, healing, and human-centered disaster relief work through our Community Restoration Project.  You're invited to continue reading  to learn how you can assist us, help others.  

How you can get involved

We are currently seeking volunteers, donations, and various sites to assist restoration efforts for those impacted by the Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast. We are focused on making sure we are connecting people impacted with  culturally mindful supplies and services.

Our culturally mindful response to disaster recovery occurs within our Community Restoration Project initiative. An initiative created during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, when it was clear that Black and Brown people were negatively impacted without consistent assistance.

We  honor that we are still flowing through a pandemic and have curated space to be safe for people volunteering and receiving assistance.  We are seeking volunteers to assist with providing access to direct services, collection and distribution of resources and supplies, and more.

Our first area of focus is to safely provide people impacted with their basic needs, food, shelter, hygiene products, and clothes. We will then phase into helping connect people to resources that will assist with restoring their lives through connecting them to legal services, services for people diagnosed with various sexually transmitted infections, services for people who speak other languages than English, and assistance with navigating FEMA, Red Cross and  other systems to get their state issued benefits.

Healing is an important part of culturally mindful disaster relief, and we are seeking people with a background in trauma informed services, herbalists, and other forms of natural healers to assist volunteers and people impacted.  Any assistance that can be provided virtually is also needed.  We  seek to collaborate with birth workers and advocates for mamas and their families as womayn of the global majority are still pregnant and having babies during and after a hurricane.

We are collecting donations to assist purchase gas cards, feminine hygiene products, baby food, diapers, and wipes, and more.  We are accepting donations via Paypal here, and Venmo at $muhammadchristina. We have collaborated with Survive2Thrive to help place people in hotel rooms instead of shelters.  Please donate at www.survive2thrivefoundation.org and you can donate through Cash App $s2tf and through Venmo @Survive2Thrive. Please donate to Survive2Thrive to help continue place people in hotel rooms.

We have Community Restoration Project group on Facebook.  This space is for those that utilize Facebook and would like to volunteer or is impacted receive information about efforts supporting impacted communities. We invite others to add information pertaining to needs and resources in the group.

If you are interested in volunteering please fill out the volunteer form below and share.

We Need Supplies

We are actively  recruiting volunteers to assist us with helping others. We are also collaborating with organizations to safely collect donations. Donations will be  to distributed to people displaced from the Gulf Coast currently Austin, Texas.  We will also take donations to the heart of communities that were unable to leave their residences and are not receiving direct assistance.  

Any monetary donations contributed to supplies will assist with the collection and distribution of supplies and resources in the heart of directly impacted communities. If you are unable to donate you're invited to share this information with others.  You can donate at the link below with the comment, "Community Restoration."