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AREA Serves AAFES
Associates Through
The Emergency Relief Fund
One of our newer AREA activities, the Emergency Relief Fund, was
created in cooperation with HQ AAFES to assist AAFES associates and
their families whose homes and property are devastated by disasters
such as wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, snow and ice
storms and floods. The program was created in 1999 when it was
concluded that AAFES could not legally provide the service.
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Emergency Relief Fund.
Under the coordinated
plan between AAFES and AREA, when a
disaster strikes AAFES Human Resources notifies the worldwide AAFES
workforce of the need for donations. AREA members and sources
outside AAFES and AREA are also given the opportunity to donate. In
addition to individual contributions by members, AREA chapters are
encouraged to support each cause by conducting fundraisers or other
activities in their communities to add to the fund.
Click here for Emergency Relief Fund History.
AREA provides a depository for funds collected and holds the
money until a volunteer committee at the exchange where the disaster
occurred determines who should receive assistance from the fund.
Shortly after the program was set up, AREA was asked to activate
the Emergency Relief Fund in support of the AAFES associates at
Seymour Johnson AFB after Hurricane Floyd devastated the East Coast
in 1999. Over $8,000 was received into the AREA Emergency Relief
Fund for distribution to the Seymour Johnson AFB Exchange to assist
associates and their families whose homes and property were
destroyed or damaged by the Hurricane.
Subsequent to the fund drive for Seymour Johnson, emergency fund
drives have been held for AAFES employees who were affected by
storms at Fort Rucker, Alabama and Guam. In the Fall of 2001, a
special emergency fund drive was conducted for military members who
were affected by the disaster at the Pentagon on September 11th.
$39,500 was contributed by AAFES employees and retirees and sent to
the Army Emergency Relief Victims’ Fund. AAFES active employees
and retirees have been very generous in their support of these
emergency relief efforts. Watch your AREA Quarterly Newsletter and
periodic communications to AREA local chapters for more information
on this program.
The address for the Emergency Relief Fund is
P.O. Box 380614
Dallas TX 75138-0614.
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