Support Families' Tornado Destroys Homes Lake Village, India
Opulent Philanthropy Inc. Non-Profit
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of our international community. We are providing food and shelter to those in need during the tornado that struck India. We are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of those around us. By supporting Opulent Philanthropy Inc., you are supporting your community and helping to build a brighter future for all.
Indiana, Disaster Relief Fund: We have provided shelter and over a quarter of a million meals during these disasters.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to families struggling in the aftermath of this disaster.
Here's how your donation can help:
$25 can provide much needed water to families.
$100 can provide a care package with essential supplies for families in need.
$250 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has access to food and shelter
$1,000 can help ensure a family displaced by the flood has long term access to food and shelter.
Reminder: Employees submit match request for monetary donations.
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Indiana, Lake Village, takes Direct Hit
In evening briefings, Newton County, Indiana, officials confirmed multiple homes were destroyed in Lake Village.
"Lake Village took a direct hit, please stay away from the area," said Rob Churchill, Lake Township Fire Chief.
"Let the first responders do what they need to do," said Sheriff Shannon Cothran. He described it as "a lot of damage." North Newton Junior High School was being opened for people needing immediate shelter, and school officials were sending a bus to the fire department to provide transportation, he said.
A tornado emergency was declared in Knox, Indiana, on Tuesday, with the National Weather Service telling residents, "This is a life-threatening situation. Seek shelter now!"
An elderly couple from Lake Village, Indiana, was killed in one of the tornadoes on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday. Several others were hospitalized from the storms, officials added.
More than 12,000 energy customers were without power across the Midwest and 23,000 across the Great Lakes region on Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
Bob Wehrle, 60, told NBC News that he received an alert on his phone Tuesday night and, once he started seeing debris flying through the air from the storm, he took shelter in a basement utility room at his home in Kankakee, Illinois.
"Next thing I know, my kitchen is falling in on me," Wehrle said. "The house is falling in, and I’m looking at the sky."
Wehrle said he was not hurt in the storm, but it took his neighbors and family members about an hour to dig him out of the devastation. His wife, Margaret, was not home at the time of the storm because she was working at the hospital.
"The worst was there was a mini fridge in our house that ended up kind of on top of me, on my legs, and I couldn’t get it open to get water out of it," he added, noting that he didn't have to go to the hospital.
