(JNS) In the wake of devastating heavy rains and flooding that killed more than 150 people last week in western Germany, the nongovernmental humanitarian agency IsraAID is sending staff members to affected areas to provide much-needed cleanup and disaster-relief assistance.

“With Germany hit by its worst flooding in living memory, IsraAID and IsraAID Germany—our locally based team, who have been working with refugees across the country since 2015—felt it was important to provide what support we can to affected communities, who have been through such tragedy in recent days,” said Ethan Schwartz, a media and communications manager at IsraAID.