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Disaster Relief

Author: Gallardo, Elia
Date Published: 2001


Migrant and community health centers (M/CHCs) are faced with great challenges in serving the farmworker population. They serve approximately 15% to 20% of the estimated 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 farmworkers nationwide. When faced with a natural disaster, these entities find themselves restricted by emergency relief vehicles that are financially limited and unable to respond to the needs of the areas that they serve. One of the criticisms of the emergency relief vehicles is that funding available on the federal level is not available to states under one major relief program. In order to improve disaster relief in remote areas with limited resources, it is imperative that health centers become actively engaged in advocacy to secure a portion of the state allocation to assist with the additional costs, keeping in mind that, if successful, funding will be secured most likely a year or more after the initial disaster.

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