Residents of Western Alaska communities in need of help following the devastation left behind by the massive mid-September storm will be receiving over $1 million in recovery funding.
The foundation, which works with philanthropic organizations and people, credited over 2,400 “generous individuals,” as well as numerous businesses, corporate sponsors and Alaska Native organizations for the funding, which was put into the Western Alaska Disaster Recovery Fund, established Sept. 17 by the foundation.
“The recovery funds will go a long way in the villages damaged by the storm,” Calista Corporation President and CEO Andrew Guy said in “The priority will be to repair the roofs and foundations of homes damaged by the storm and provide generators, heating stoves, and freezers lost to the flood waters.”hit communities stretching along the west coast of the state
, creating storm surges that breached many towns and wreaked havoc on buildings and private cabins. Community leaders say the most destructive element of the storm was the number of fish cabins and winter food stocks that subsistence hunters compiled, which were wiped away by the storm surge.
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