Portfolio Category: Disaster Relief

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall over the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti as a category 4 hurricane, packing winds of 145 mph and dropping as much as 40 inches of rain in some areas. Every structure that was not made of concrete was leveled. Flash floods swept away every possession, every source of...

It was a Saturday afternoon when the first earthquake hit Nepal on April 25th, 2015. In the span of a few minutes, the culturally-rich, isolated Himalayan nation had its villages, towns and sacred temples reduced to rubble- leaving more than 8,500 dead, 22,000 injured, and half a million homeless. Two days after the first quake...

On March 24, 2014, rain fell on Oso, Washington, as Hotes Foundation volunteers arrived to provide disaster relief after the deadliest mudslide in United States history. Once a beautiful destination for fishermen and hikers, Oso was buried under 30 feet, and in places 70 feet, of mud and debris that claimed 43...

The strongest tropical storm in recorded history smashed into the Philippines on November 8, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan took the lives of more than 6,300 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The storm also caused mudslides large enough to completely bury three-story buildings. To help those with the greatest need, 30 Hotes Foundation volunteers walked...