Facebook’s Safety Check is most well known for letting people know you’re safe during an emergency. However, if you’re in the affected area of a disaster and you need help or want to offer to help others, you can find people using it, too. Here’s how to find help or volunteer.
Head to the Safety Check section on Facebook here and click on the event in your area where you need or want to offer help.
Here, you’ll see a map of red and green dots. The red dots indicate someone who needs help, while the green dots indicate someone who is offering help.
To seek help from someone else, click the Find Help drop down and you’ll see a list of categories like shelter, water, and food. Click one of these to filter the map results to show only the posts that are relevant to your need.
On the map, click a dot near you to see what a person is offering. Then, you can click to see the post where the person is offering help, or…
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