2021 Hurricane Ida Disaster Response and Recovery Fund

Save the Children

Since 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Save the Children been on the front lines meeting children’s most critical needs in every major U.S. disaster. They have created more safe spaces for children in emergencies than any other humanitarian organization. To date, they have served more than 3.5 million children affected by U.S. disasters. As one of the most powerful storms on record to hit Louisiana, Hurricane Ida has putting children at great risk and taking many of them from the lives they once knew. Save the Children’s emergency response team is mobilizing to meet the most urgent needs of children living in areas that will be hardest hit by Hurricane Ida.

World Central Kitchen, Inc.

Chef José Andrés and his teams from World Central Kitchen are already on the ground ready to prepare over 100,000 meals for those who will be effected. "Tomorrow morning as soon as it is safe our teams will go out and start making meals and delivering to the different places that will be in need to do that ... We need to be planning ahead not only for the days but for weeks."