Core Community Organized Relief Effort

TO SAVE LIVES AND STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY OR VULNERABLE TO CRISIS.

PANDEMIC RESPONSEIN 2021, CORE CONTINUED EXPANSION IN ITS PROGRAMMATIC AND OPERATIONAL FOOTPRINT, RESPONDING TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CORE PROVIDED TESTING, CONTACT TRACING AND RESOURCE COORDINATION SERVICES IN LOS ANGELES, NAPA VALLEY, BAKERSFIELD, AND ALAMEDA COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, NEW ORLEANS, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, NORTH CAROLINA, HAITI, INDIA, AND BRAZIL. CORE PARTNERED WITH DOMESTIC MEDICAL PROVIDERS TO PROVIDE COVID-19 VACCINATIONS IN CALIFORNIA, GEORGIA, CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, WASHINGTON DC, PUERTO RICO AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS IN BRAZIL, HAITI, AND INDIA. BY YEAR'S END, WE HAD PROVIDED OVER 1.9 MILLION FREE COVID-19 TESTS AND 2.7 MILLION COVID-19 VACCINATIONS TO VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN THESE LOCATIONS.

CONSTRUCTIONCORE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO REBUILD AND REINFORCE NEIGHBORHOODS AND STRENGTHEN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT POST-DISASTER. IN 2020, CORE FINALIZED CONSTRUCTION ON THE FDS BUILDING (FACULTY DES SCIENCES) PROJECT, A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR, 3-YEAR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TO REBUILD THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE BUILDING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAITI. THE FDS BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY WAS DAMAGED DURING THE 2010 EARTHQUAKE AND HAD BEEN OPERATING UNDER TENTS DURING SUBSEQUENT YEARS. THIS PROJECT REBUILT THE ENTIRE GROUP OF CLASSROOM AND LABORATORY BUILDINGS TO INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS, BENEFITTING AN ESTIMATED 2,215 STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF. IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, CORE DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED A SHELTER PROGRAM IN NAVAJO NATION. AS PART OF THIS PROGRAM, CORE IN 2021 COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION OF 330 SHELTERS DESIGNED TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 TO ELDERS IN MULTI-GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLDS. THE STANDALONE SHELTERS WERE CONSTRUCTED USING LOCAL CRAFTSMEN.

DISASTER RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS IN 2021, CORE RESPONDED DOMESTICALLY TO HURRICANE IDA IN NEW ORLEANS, THE HAITI MIGRANT CRISIS AT THE DEL RIO, TEXAS BORDER, AND TO WINTER TORNADO DAMAGE IN TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY. THESE RESPONSES INVOLVED MUCK AND GUT OF 21 HOUSES, DISTRIBUTION OF 1,965 HYGIENE KITS, 3,800 HOT MEALS AND REMOVAL OF 4,900 CUBIC METERS OF DEBRIS. INTERNATIONALLY, CORE FINALIZED RECOVERY PROGRAMMING IN THE BAHAMAS AFTER HURRICANE DORIAN AND TO THE HAITI 2021 EARTHQUAKE. OUR TEAMS WERE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE REMOVAL OF OVER 118,000 CUBIC METERS OF DEBRIS AND DISTRIBUTE $800,000 IN GRANTS TO LOCAL BUSINESSES. IN HAITI, CORE WAS ABLE TO LEVERAGE EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT TO COMMUNITIES IN GRAND'ANSE AND NIPPES WITH A CASH-FOR-WORK PROGRAM REACHING 1,200 INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE EMPLOYED TO SUPPORT DEBRIS REMOVAL AND PROVIDE REPAIRS TO OVER 5,000 HOUSEHOLDS. CORE DISTRIBUTED OVER 3,400 HYGIENE KITS, 5,900 SHELTER KITS, AND REGISTERED OVER 9,000 HOUSEHOLDS FOR SUPPORT. ADDITIONALLY, CORE EXPANDED EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROGRAMMING IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE PROGRAM WORKS WITH YOUNG ADULTS FROM COMMUNITIES SUSCEPTIBLE TO NATURAL DISASTERS. THE PREPAREDNESS TRAINING PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO WORK WITH COMMUNITIES ALONG THE HURRICANE BELT ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS UTILIZING FEMA-APPROVED COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) CURRICULUM AND CERTIFICATION. WITH THIS PROGRAM, CORE HAS TRAINED OVER 200 COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO BE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS LEADERS IN NORTH CAROLINA.