POTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A group of Schuylkill County volunteers is headed down south Sunday to help the victims of Hurricane Helene. Members of the "Skook" community have been donating supplies all week and now those items will be going to people in need.
Volunteers and members of the Skook Road Trip North Carolina Relief, team packed one box at a time inside a Pottsville warehouse on Sunday.
"With any of our abilities. Time, money, effort that we can lend a hand that we can do something," said Skook Road Trip Relief Project organizer Bobby Weaver.
The items are all donated by people in Schuylkill County and are going to Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina.
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There are more than 150 pallets in addition to another 100 already shipped down.
Members of the Scream Queens Roller Derby Team are a few of the volunteers to helped in the relief efforts that took place for more than a week.
"We got their back and if this was to happen to us I know that people would support us in the same way. And we do on to others as you would want done to yourself right?" asked Scream Queens Roller Derby Team Volunteer Clarissa Christ.
Inside the boxes, there's a variety of items from blankets and food to even baby supplies.
Five to six trailer trucks are hauling the donations directly to those in need.
A 56-passenger bus full of volunteers will follow.
"We're going down there to lend whatever help we need even if it's just someone to listen to a story or help them pick stuff up we're going to be there for whatever is needed," Weaver stated.
That includes building a full outdoor commercial kitchen to set up several meal services.
At first, Weaver says his team expected to feed 1,200 people. Since then, that has grown to 12,000.
"We're excited it's going to be amazing. The Skook has never shied away from helping others, ever," Weaver explained.
All the equipment from the commercial kitchen will stay in North Carolina and go toward businesses that suffered great losses.
The team has set up a GoFundMe where currently more than $100,000 has been raised.
