Friends,

Your generosity and kindness continue to remind me how much love there is in the world. After our first drop, Jackie hit the news and was overcome with help from the community!! I was searching for another place your donations could go that we could trust.

I was looking for an expert in search, rescue, and recovery who could help me ensure that these goods and supplies would make it directly to people who most need them, and God presented me with that expert. I read his post on social media and was able to start the conversation before Elon and the rest of the world filled his notifications.

It is with great joy I announce that I have partnered with Ryan Tyre of WeCan and HALO - two organizations on the ground in Asheville and the surrounding rural areas helping to rescue folks and get them the help they need, with long-term plans for the future. These are small orgs that know how to navigate - shall we say - tumultuous red tape properly.

Please read this post to see what I mean.

I have had extensive conversations with Ryan, and we are getting into high gear now. Here is how he explained our efforts:

"🧵We have had so many people reach out in the last 24 hours, offering their prayers and support. I want to especially thank those that have made monetary donations or that have asked about how they can donate.

When I made my post yesterday about my experience and efforts in disaster relief, I never imagined it would even reach this many people - really I was just posting to speak my piece.

But so many have already offered their support both on the ground and monetarily.

In an effort to keep the process streamlined and to exponentially expand how far your contributions can go, I am collaborating with Tracy Beanzon collecting donations.

She is an amazing person that i am sure many of you have come across here on X - she has a very large microphone and is not afraid to use it to do the right thing.

She will be collecting the donations and purchasing all of the supplies that we will be transporting and distributing to the areas affected surrounding the city of Asheville. I will put a link to the donations in the thread below.

Our mission is to establish 4 mobile food banks to best reach the people in need in the 4 quadrants surrounding Asheville and further into the "forgotten" and cut off areas outside of there.

Our food banks will provide life sustaining supplies like food, water and medical supplies. Also they will provide a mobile internet connection via Starlink, so that as we are distributing supplies, victims that have been largely cut off from their friends and family can make contact.

We aim to not only provide supplies, but to also take teams out to the areas that are remote that need rescue or debris removed so that they can access the outside world again.

If you feel so inclined to donate to this cause, please click the link provided here to donate to our cause. This will be the ONLY official method I am offering for donations currently.

For all who are wanting to be boots on the ground, please be patient with us, as we are putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together to ensure that we do this the correct and most effective way.

This is a little different than a 5 - 10 man team that we would normally go into an area with.

For those that we have talked to already, i will provide updates on this page with times and locations to meet and discuss more granular details over DM as they become available.

To make sure we can help the maximum amount of people with the resources we have, will be incorporating collaborations with other teams on the ground as we move through this process.

Currently we have only partnered with Tracy Beanz and H.A.L.O.

They are both integral parts of our operation and have professional capacity to make the best use of our current level of resources.

For more information on racy Beanz and H.A.L.O, i will provide links to them at the end of this post.

Again I thank you for your patience, I know i have only gotten back to a small portion of you that have reached out, but i will eventually!

You can read that social media post HERE

Long story short, this will be an amazing effort to help the most people possible. We will also likely be streaming live as frequently as possible and providing on-the-ground video of the areas we are servicing. We need everyone to see the REAL story of what is going on there on the ground. As I have been doing, I will provide full transparency and receipts for what is purchased. Please continue to check back here frequently for updates.
With so much love and thanks,

Tracy

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