TIFTON — The local Red Cross organization has a new emergency response trailer thanks to a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation.
The trailer is stocked with 200 cots, four nursing cots, a nursing kit, a feeding kit, toys and games, a generator and a light kit in case of power outages. Also on board are containers for foods and beverages and enough paper products for 200 people.
According to John W. Wright, the director of emergency services for the Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Wal-Mart Foundation awarded $5 million in grant money nationwide. The chapter includes the counties of Tift, Atkinson, Ben Hill, Berrien, Clinch, Coffee, Irwin and Turner. The chapter received a total of $50,000 and the local trailer is worth $20,000.
“We were three of 20 chapters in the state that applied for the grants,” Wright said.
The trailer will remain parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot so that it can be easily located in case of an emergency in the area, Wright said.
Cheryl Edwards serves as program coordinator for the Coastal Plains Branch of the Savannah Red Cross in Tifton.
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