US EditionHow a Hurricane Katrina victim is helping the smallest survivors of the Texas floods
KERR COUNTY, TEXAS, JUL 19 – Hurricane Katrina survivor Hymel founded Comfort Bears in a Catastrophe, donating over 50,000 stuffed animals to help Texas flood-affected children cope emotionally, experts say comfort aids recovery.
- Hymel, who survived Hurricane Katrina as a child when a Category 5 storm destroyed her Louisiana home in 2005, has mobilized to help children affected by natural disasters.
- Her family evacuated during Katrina, leaving her father working at a hospital, and local groups quickly provided food, clothing, and shelter to meet immediate needs.
- After struggling to sleep without her favorite stuffed animal, Hymel was inspired to create Comfort Bears in a Catastrophe, a nonprofit that organizes stuffed animal donation campaigns and collaborates with first responders to bring comfort to children affected by emergencies.
- Her nonprofit has donated over 50,000 stuffed animals and written children’s books, while Hymel said, "The constant drumbeat of disasters has been relentless" and Gully emphasized, "No one cares who you are, what you look like or who you voted for."
- Hymel’s efforts and community-driven donation drives, including one collecting 600 stuffed animals in one day, provide comfort and encourage disaster preparedness and healing for children after tragedies like the Texas Hill Country floods.
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Por Chelsea Bailey La mayoría de la gente no espera que Mimi Hymel recuerde al huracán Katrina. Después de todo, solo tenía 3 años cuando la tormenta de categoría 5 azotó su casa de Luisiana en 2005. Pero casi 20 años después, cuando Hymel vio las noticias de las inundaciones que inundaron Texas Hill Country y vio las desgarradoras imágenes de destrucción de Camp Mystic, dijo que esos recuerdos regresaron con una claridad nítida. Todavía puede r…
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