Dogwood Health Trust’s Post

When Hurricane Helene hit, C2Life/C2Life Foundation had to pivot. Before the hurricane, this Burke County human service provider was shipping out 1,500 healthy pre-packed frozen meals a week to Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) participants. After the hurricane hit, C2Life was left without power and so were their HOP clients who could no longer safely store or heat and eat their meals. Quickly calling on their community, C2Life partnered with UPS and used a $10,000 emergency grant from Impact Health to create shelf stable meal kits for HOP clients and hurricane survivors. With volunteer drivers, they were able to deliver shelf stable meal kits to distribution sites across Western North Carolina. Now they are looking to do more. C2Life is partnering with other human service organizations in the Impact Health network to help support them as they recover from hurricane-related impacts and continue to support HOP participants.