Somebody Cares America

Somebody Cares America (sca) provides resources for relief of victims of personal crisis and natural disasters. During 2022, the organization provided: ukraine crisis Somebody Cares partnered with local churches and organizations in the region to provide food, shelter, blankets, medical care, crisis and trauma counseling, ukrainian language audio bibles as well as other resources and more to thousands of people who fled to romania and poland when fighting began. We aided in transporting hundreds to further destinations including israel and europe. We also funded the transport of medical supplies into the region as well as supporting chaplaincy services in communities affected by the fighting. Kentucky flooding the Somebody Cares network mobilized resources as well as volunteers to assist residents affected by severe flooding in Kentucky. In collaboration with other organizations, we were able to provide funds to purchase 36 solar powered lights; 5 pallets of generators, power washers, shoes and other tools; a pallet of cleaners; tents, sleeping bags and heaters; 72 comfort bears; hygiene items; groceries; as well as 5,700 worth of gift cards for families affected by the floods. Hurricane ian Somebody Cares and our partner network rushed aid to Florida communities affected by hurricane ian. Our teams cooked and distributed 46,930 hot meals. In collaboration with other organizations, we were able to provide the funds to deliver 7 truckloads of cleaning supplies, food, water, new furniture, generators, mattress and more; and provided 240 comfort bears, box fans, solar lights to residents affected by the storm. We gave out 2,000 worth of gift cards to families. Sca also equipped area churches and helping organizations with resources and funding needed to assist their communities post ian. Various other response efforts the Somebody Cares disaster response network continued to assist survivors of the 2021 quad state tornados by providing the funds to purchase generators, chainsaws, compressors, tools and other items needed for ongoing recovery. In addition, sca provided a grant to purchase appliances for 4 new homes built for families affected by the tornado that devastated mayfield, ky. sca/i assisted with paying for the shipment of tens of thousands of dollars of medicalsupplies to haiti in response to the most recent earthquake there. Working with churches along the southern border, we provided funds to purchase diapers, blankets, comfort bears, 50 pairs of new shoes, as well as spanish bibles to help care for those in crisis. We also hosted a day of appreciation for hundreds of border patrol offices serving hot meals and providing them a variety of encouraging resources. Somebody Cares provided gift cards for 50 families impacted by wildfires in eastland, tx; and paid for the replacement of electric poles for a widow so her power could be reconnected. Partnering with local churches in uvalde, Somebody Cares provided 142 comfort bears, hundreds of resource booklets as well as onsite suppport to help the community as well as law enforcement to help those touched by the tragedy begin the healing process. Somebody Cares also offers a 24/7 prayer and referral line for individuals in crisis.

Ongoing support for Somebody Cares chapters and centers consisted of phone and zoom conferences as well as site visits to multiple us and international locations. Somebody Cares currently has 2 active international chapters, 12 active us chapters and 1 active us centers.

Somebody Cares continued online leadership development activities to provide twenty transforming leadership seminars with guest speakers that included: dr. joseph mattera, dr. roger parrot, dr. david gyertson, tom phillips, rev. Samuel rodriguez, kathy branzell, bunni pounds, alveda king, winkie pratney, robert stearns and more. Our weekly a word in season with doug stringer and friends podcast continued with weekly episodes available on most podcast platforms. We launched a new weekly podcast entitled, her god story, also available on most podcast platforms and published and accompanying devotional.

The organization spreads god's word through support of community outreaches, mission activities and giving to other ministries.