The deadliest and most destructive wildfires in the history of the state of California that erupted earlier this month impacted us all across the state and are still burning.  Our hearts go out to the direct victims of these devastation.  The city of Paradise near us, was virtually razed to the ground with enormous loss of lives and structures.  We have been helplessly watching the catastrophe of this relentless burning impacting air quality to a dangerous level over the vast areas of California including ours.

Survivors of these wildfires face an obvious humanitarian crisis and long term displacement. Humanity Beyond Barriers (HBB) – your local humanitarian organization, came forward to help with your support.  Please click here to learn more about how HBB has initiated a fund drive from our community for the Camp Fire victims of northern California. HBB will donate a matching amount within its capacity once the fund from this community drive is collected.  All donations to HBB are tax deductible per US IRS regulations.

To donate cash or gift cards to HBB, please contact any of the Camp Fire Fund Drive volunteers (see contact list below). You may also payTo help, you can either “pledge” or “donate” through Paypal here.

Regardless of whether you pledge or donate, you can ask for a donation match if you are an Intel employee. To do so, please donate through Benevity here and enter “Camp Fire” in the comment section. Please select “HUMANITY BEYOND BARRIERS INC” when donating through Benevity to ensure that we get your donation.

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Your donation to HBB may be tax-deductible as per IRS regulations.

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You may also consider donating blood for the cause at any BloodSource location, including mobile locations. Please remember to mention HBB blood drive code 0381.

To donate winter clothes, sleeping bags or new clothes accepted by Sacramento Area Bangladeshi American Association (SABAA) for the Camp Fire victims, please contact SABAA  EC as per  their emails circulated earlier.  SABAA representatives are graciously coordinating cash donations on behalf of HBB.

Thank you for your humanitarian help for the unfortunate victims of northern California catastrophic wildfires.  This fund drive ends on Monday, December 3rd .

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HBB Fund Drive contact persons:

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Mahfuz Rahman (314 488 3644); Rana Billah (916 715 0586); Bipon Alim (323 244 9234);

Jim Cullor: (559 936-0510); AQM Kabir (916 420-0163); Milon Chowdhury (916 802-4738); Khandaker Mukul (916 934-8350); Halima Paru: (530 219-6840); Ray Rodriguez: (916 837-8849); Saayma Shahid Rima (916 752-4656); Zaodat Romel (916 799-0423); Sheikh Selim (530 219-8879)