Hurricane relief efforts continue, UMNS, October 26, 1998. This article describes UMCOR emergency response to affected areas and gives specific information how people can help through donations and volunteerism.
Communicator finds homeland altered after Hurricane, UMNS, October 14, 1998. "Arriving in my native Puerto Rico, I could not believe the devastation that I saw." --Hurricane Georges was the worst disaster to hit Puerto Rico since 1928.
UMCOR Report on Hurricane Georges Devastation, October 6, 1998. Volunteers will be needed in Puerto Rico and other places for years to come. 70 percent of the houses in St. Kitts lost their roofs. In Nevis the whole agricultural base was wiped out. In the Dominican Republic, a dam was overtopped; an estimated 1,500 people drowned or disappeared.
Church agencies work to help hard-hit Dominican Republic, UMNS, October 6, 1998. As faith-based disaster response organizations get assessment reports from the Dominican Republic following Hurricane Georges, the story from the already poor island country becomes increasingly bleak.
UMCOR's Hurricane Georges page was selected for a Hot Site Award in the October 2-4, 1998 edition of USA TODAY Online.