Mercy Chefs Offering Hope and Warm Meals to La. Flood Victims
Mercy Chefs is bringing hope to Baton Rouge as flood waters devastate Louisiana.
Historic rain ripped through much of southeastern Louisiana this weekend, leaving several dead and thousands without their homes.
While sudden homelessness is a huge problem for locals, they also have no way of getting their next meal. The non-profit organization Mercy Chefs is stepping up to provide warm meals and a sense of hope.
"Mercy Chefs is deploying from our Dallas base effective immediately and will arrive in Louisiana tonight," they posted on Facebook Sunday night. "We will be stationed at Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, and will begin serving 2,000 meals daily."
Meanwhile, more areas are being devastated by record-setting raining. But as floodwaters climb, so does the aid Mercy Chefs pours into affected areas, making this the organization's ninth disaster response this year.
"Mercy Chefs has been called to feed people who are in shelters who don't have homes to go to anymore," Mercy Chefs founder Gary LeBlanc said in a statement. "I can't imagine that kind of hopelessness."
LeBlanc is calling on people around the country to do anything they can to help relieve the devastation in Baton Rouge.
"Seventy-five hundred people are in shelters tonight and that number is just going to go up," he says.
He encourages people in the nearby region to sign-up to volunteer, or help provide meals by donating on their website.
"Help us help these people," LeBlanc says.
