About Us - Volunteer Emergency Relief

About Our Organization

OUR MISSION

To bring people emergency relief and hope right after a disaster.

Our mission is to Do Good in times of major need. We enable service and volunteer organizations to act during disasters. Our simple, yet effective model allows for volunteers to jump into action immediately after a disaster strikes. We approach action on a concentric methodology: First, take care of you and your family. Second, your neighborhood. Third, your community. And at last, but not least, other communities.

Our purpose is to provide means and mechanisms to let people do their part in helping others, no matter where they live and no matter when a disaster occurs. To achieve this, we need to establish key partnerships and build centers of operations and training to bring volunteers together to help others based on their skills, circles of influence, and abilities to help.

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DURING HURRICANE SEASON

Over $600K in Food Donations

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Your ongoing support is invaluable to us, and we appreciate your willingness to contribute. Together, we can make a lasting impact.

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Your ongoing support is invaluable to us, and we appreciate your willingness to contribute. Together, we can make a lasting impact.

Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of the VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief. The VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with the purpose and mission of the VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief.

No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if, under any reasonable set of circumstances, the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security.

The VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.

The VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of the VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief.

Certain other gifts, real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief.

The VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief. will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief.

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The VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief. will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders' fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to the VER - Volunteer Emergency Relief.

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OUR STORY

In September of 2017, in the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season, Fred Martins and Gustavo Couto founded the non-profit organization VER – Volunteer Emergency Relief. Noticing that a lot of people in the Brazilian immigrant community had recently moved to Florida and had never been through a hurricane before, Fred and Gustavo started posting videos in Portuguese on social media about how people should proceed before, during, and after a hurricane.

Nothing was planned; they just wanted to spread as much information as they could to the immigrant population. After seeing how serious Hurricane IRMA was becoming, they decided to rent a U-Haul truck two days before IRMA landed in Florida, so they could be ready to help with anything they could. The plan was to wait for Hurricane IRMA to pass. Then they would do a damage assessment of their own houses first, check out the conditions in their own neighborhood, and if everything was okay, they would meet in front of a local church. Everything was okay in their neighborhoods, and like a miracle, not even the power went down. So few hours later, right after the curfew was over, they got together.

With a pickup truck, a few cases of water, and a bunch of tools, off they went. Neither of them would ever imagine that from that simple action, God would give them a mission that would end up putting together an army of volunteers (to later be called the “V-angels”). VER would raise over 200K Dollars in food donations, and deliver over 2000 emergency relief boxes in Broward County, Key West, and Puerto Rico.

VER would be the first non-profit organization to arrive in Key West to do a local assessment of the damages and the real need of the local population. In a record time, only 15 days, VER was approved by the US Government and granted the non-profit status 501 (c) (3). For Fred and Gustavo, there is no doubt that God planned everything