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“The team have already met with small independent initiatives across the north that are delivering food, gutting houses, and helping to rebuild their homes.

Our volunteers will assist with the current effort being carried out and use our experience in these disasters to work out what more we can do and how.

We have responded to 10 floods and tornado disasters in the US and when we saw what was happening to the UK in the news it looked worse than ever before.

We wanted to show the community we would be there for them.

We got in touch with the Jewish communities around the north of England and they told us about the independent NGOs working on the ground.

We contacted them and arranged to send our team to help they said yes and here we are.

The first team were greeted by locals with open hands and are now mapping the workloads which would include distribution of goods and gutting houses helping people repair their homes.” (IsraAid director Shachar Zahavi speaking to the Jewish Chronicle, 06/01/2015)