COLBERT, Wash. – Six pumphouses are being constructed to support families who lost everything in the 2023 Oregon Road Fire.
The team behind this mission is Sister-Corps, an all-women disaster recovery group.
Recently, the group arrived to town and got straight to work meeting the families devastated last summer.
Patti Connolly is using her retirement from social work to help support this mission.
“I feel honored to be here and be able to support the people who have been victims of the fires,” Connolly said.
Connolly came from Oregon to join Sister-Corps in its mission to help with disaster work across the nation.
“We’re not first responders. We come in and do long term recovery work,” said Leeann Moore, the president of Sister-Corps.
Sister-Corps has been around for almost eight years. The women who are a part of it also call themselves Sisters on the Fly, traveling around the country following natural disasters to help put people’s lives back together.
“We are building well houses for at least six families so they can get that water pump going and move into their replaced home,” Moore said.