Project Overview

In October 2020 OIRRT began a joint reconstruction program funded through a $850,000 grant held by Hyde County. This funding is managed and administered by OIRRT. Currently, our volunteer teams hail from Christian Aid Ministries. We have committed to five "scratch-built homes," which are completely new structures to replace homes demolished post-Dorian. OIRRT has also committed to eleven major reconstructions of already existing structures. 

In January 2021 Operation Blessing granted $104,893 directly to OIRRT to further our reconstruction effort on Ocracoke Island. This funding will be used to serve a minimum of six families. 

In February 2021, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance committed $85,107 for unmet reconstruction needs. These funds are in the process of being committed.

In April 2021, the Outer Banks Community Foundation committed $102,692 from their Long Term Recovery Grant Program and $16,785 through the Red Cross to support our reconstruction effort. View their announcement here. 

OIRRT has taken over multiple unfinished and unbegun reconstruction projects  from UMCOR, which dissolved its Ocracoke center in 2020.

OIRRT is actively searching for additional funding to address unmet reconstruction needs on Ocracoke Island. We are also accepting donations to support the survivors of Hurricane Dorian.