How You Can Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims

I’m sure all of you, like me, are horrified by the loss left in the wake of the tornado in Oklahoma.  The pictures and footage I’ve seen on the news is just devastating.  And the fact that it hit an elementary school…ugh, my heart breaks.  One of my fellow bloggers at Coupon Closet is local to the area hit and has put together a nice list of places that are accepting donations.

Please, use good judgement about where you send your money. Unfortunately there’s always someone looking to capitalize on a tragedy like this.  The American Red Cross is always a valid place to donate.

Couponers, these folks need specific items and if you have them to spare on your stockpile this would be a great time to pay it forward.

If you are a local Lancaster/Central PA reader, 101.1 The Rose has partnered with Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill and one Sunday June 2, they will have a Coach bus parked in the Roherstown location parking lot to accept donations from 9am to 9pm  that will go to Moore, OK on Monday.  Read more here. Raid your stockpiles and try to help!

Monetary Donations:

You can donate any monetary donations via THIS website. This is the United Methodist Church and the money will go directly to those affected.

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Non-perishable food, water, clean-up supplies, diapers, clothing etc. can be taken to:

FEED THE CHILDREN – 333 N Meridian (Corner of Reno and Meridian)
FOOD BANK – 3355 S Purdue (972-1111) (Corner of 29th and McArthur)
CHANNEL 9 NEWS – 7401 N Kelly (843-6641)
KFOR – 444 E Britton (424-4444)
KOCO 5 – 1228 E Wilshire (478-3434)

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Yukon High School

The Yukon high School StuCo and Leadership will be collecting

• water bottles
• Gatorade
• diapers
• baby wipes
• baby formula
• work gloves
• trash bags
• individual wrapped snacks
• hand sanitizer, hand towels
• sunscreen, batteries
• flashlights and money 

These will be delivered to the Salvation Army for distribution.

Please bring items to the Yukon High School Rotunda by Wednesday 5/23/13 at 3:30pm

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All Edmond Schools are taking donations

The high schools in Edmond are collecting donations. North is collecting water, Santa Fe is collecting canned goods and Memorial is collecting clothes.

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St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church

This is my friend’s church and it is located at SW 119th  and May. They need non-perishable food items, water, and clean-up supplies (rakes, shovels, heavy duty gloves, etc).

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More Ways to Help:

www.SalvationArmyUSA.org or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769). Text the word “STORM” to 80888 to make a $10 donation through your phone; to confirm your gift, respond with the word “Yes.”

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
www.regionalfoodbank.org or call 604-7111 or text FOOD to 32333 to give $10 to relief efforts.

American Red Cross
Visit redcross.org, dialing 1-800-REDCROSS or texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

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Donate to the Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief to help provide tree removal services, laundry services and meals to victims of disasters. Send checks to BGCO, Attn: Disaster Relief, 3800 N. May Ave., Oklahoma City, OK., 73112. (please do not send clothing)

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If you would like to Volunteer to help you can apply here.

Remember to pray for these families!

I will be updating this post, as we get more information.