by: Liz Freeman (Naples Daily News)
The Rotary Club of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, had no ties to Immokalee until Hurricane Irma pummeled the migrant farmworkers’ community.
Three volunteers with the Rotary club in the New Jersey community about 45 minutes from Atlantic City recently returned to their home after spending four days in Southwest Florida to help Immokalee residents start to put their lives together. Hurricane Irma tore through aging mobile homes and other residences in Immokalee, placing farmworker families and children in perilous living conditions.
The New Jersey group worked alongside the Rotary Club of Immokalee, staff members of The Blue Zones Project of Southwest Florida, and local businesses to help place blue tarps on damaged roofs in Immokalee and make some basic repairs so families could get by.
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