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So, you want to volunteer in a disaster area? Here’s how

Posted February 25th, 2019

When Mother Nature rages, Eden Roberts knows her phone is going to start ringing. “They want to go to the place they saw on the news,” says the mission specialist for hosting and volunteer management for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA). “After (Hurricane) Sandy, they all wanted to go to New Jersey where the boardwalk got torn down. Now, Mexico Beach (the Florida town where Hurricane Michael made landfall in October) — everybody wants to go to Mexico Beach.”