Thursday, March 28, 2024

OCLTRG welcomes fifth AmeriCorps NCCC team of volunteers

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PATEROS – For the fifth time since the record wildfires of 2014-15, a group of volunteers with the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) AmeriCorps is serving part of its 10-month tour working with the Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Group (OCLTRG).
Green 3, an 11-member team of AmeriCorps NCCC volunteers arrived last Tuesday, April 17, to begin three months of work on a variety of projects around the county to help rebuild homes and properties of victims of wildfire and flood damage.
“This town has some of the sweetest and most grateful people I have ever met,” said Green 3 Team Leader Maddy Walinchus of the Pateros residents she has encountered. “You can tell that the community has been through a lot, and despite their recent tragedies they are still a very happy and welcoming community.”
Green 3 spent its first three-month deployment in Houston a few months following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. Its next stop was Great Falls, Mont., where team members worked with underprivileged residents there.
AmeriCorps NCCC is part of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created in 1993 under the administration of President George H.W. Bush. CNCS merged the staff and mission of two previous agencies, ACTION and the Commission on National and Community Service. The new agency manages three primary programs, AmeriCorps, which combined VISTA with the new National Civilian Community Corps; the Senior Corps, that combined the Foster Grandparents, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), and Senior Companions; and Learn and Serve America, formerly Serve America.
Green3 Team will remain in Pateros until mid-July.

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