United Way of Northern B.C. opens wildfire Urgent Response Fund

The United Way of Northern B.C. (UWNBC) is working to support communities in Northern B.C. affected by wildfires.

In order to ensure that help and resources are centred around providing resources to those who need, UWNBC had established an Urgent Response Fund and developed a list of potential volunteers.

The Urgent Response Fund will collect donations from organizations and individuals that would like to help but don’t know how – and the funds will help both now and when communities are in recovery.

This will be for both evacuated communities, communities directly supporting evacuees, and in the case that the worst happens and fire impacts a community directly. 

United Way of Northern BC will collect these funds and then work with local people and agencies to determine where the funds are most needed and then disperse the donor contributions as the situation evolves.

UWNBC will also be creating a list of potential volunteers to call on should they be needed to support agencies who are seeing an influx of clientele due to the added population in their community, evacuee centre supports, and recovery supports should the worst occur.

The organization says it recognizes volunteer options will be more localized to affected areas, but due to the wildfire situation this year and the need to urgently activate help in this situation, it is putting the call out to contacts across Northern B.C..

To donate or to find more information on the UWNBC’s response, visit UWNBC’s website.