AFA Disaster Relief Fund
Flight Attendants helping Flight Attendants. The Disaster Relief Fund provides a means for AFA members to assist other members and retirees who have suffered significant damage and/or relocation as a result of a disaster. Since its beginning in the fall of 2001, the AFA Disaster Relief Fund has provided support in the aftermath of many large-scale disasters including the September 11th terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and other natural and/or man-made disasters.
Give to the AFA Disaster Relief Fund
100% of the funds contribution will go directly to impacted Flight Attendants in the form of cash assistance.
If you would like to mail a donation to the disaster relief fund, please send your check to:
AFA-CWA Disaster Relief Fund
Attn: Dante Harris
501 Third Street NW
Washington DC 20001
Texas Hurricane Beryl
AFA disaster relief fund applications for all disasters, including Hurricane Beryl, are now closed (8/1/2024). Please consider applying for FEMA’s Individual and Household Program. Below are sample forms of financial assistance and direct services for which you may be eligible through FEMA. Go to disasterassistance.gov to review eligibility criteria and to apply.
- Serious Needs Assistance: Money to help you pay for immediate needs such as water, food, first aid, prescriptions, infant formula, breastfeeding equipment, diapers, personal hygiene items, and fuels for transportation.
- Displacement Assistance: Money to help with immediate housing needs if you cannot return to your home because of the disaster. The money can be used to stay in a hotel, with family and friends, or other options while you look for a rental unit.
- Personal Property Assistance: Money to help you repair or replace appliances, room furnishings, and a computer damaged by the disaster. This can also include money for books, uniforms, tools, additional computers and other items required for school or work, including self-employment.
- Transportation Assistance: Money to help repair or replace a vehicle damaged by a disaster when you don’t have another vehicle you can use.
- Unlike most other forms of the Individuals and Households Program assistance, an applicant does not need to live in the Presidentially declared disaster area to be considered for this assistance.
- Medical and Dental Assistance: Money to help you pay for expenses because the disaster caused an injury or illness. This money can also be used to help replace medical/dental equipment, breastfeeding equipment, damaged or lost prescribed medicine, or loss/injury of a service animal.
- Child Care Assistance: Money for new or increased disaster-caused child care expenses.
- Moving and Storage Assistance: Money to help you move and store personal property from your home to prevent additional damage, typically used while you are making repairs to your home or moving to a new place due to the disaster.
- Assistance for Miscellaneous Items: Money for certain eligible items (such as a generator, dehumidifier, chainsaw, etc.) you purchased or rented after the disaster to assist with recovery.
