Category Archives: Missions

VIM Mission Trip to NC March 1-9     Major natural disasters bring much media attention and an influx of volunteers. Poverty is another disaster that occurs around us but is often not addressed. Washington County in North Carolina has a poverty rate of 44.3 per cent brought on by the layoffs of hundreds of good jobs in the wood products industry in that area.

Hurricane Sandy had a severe impact in the Caribbean, where it killed 69 people and destroyed or damaged more than 110,000 homes. Damages are particularly extensive in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica. The storm also affected as many as 60 million people in the United States and Canada, where assessments of the extensive damages and death toll are ongoing.