Our Nurse of the Week is Leslie Silcox, a registered nurse from Knoxville, Tennessee, who has been organizing hurricane relief efforts for years in her own spare time. Most recently, she helped pack supplies to send to Florida following the aftermath of Hurricane Michael.
Silcox’s hurricane relief efforts began in 2012 when she randomly opened her Facebook page and saw images of the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York. She wished there was something she could do to help, and realized that maybe there was. Silcox posted on her own Facebook page asking for volunteers, and within 3 days had filled a 20-foot Budget truck with relief supplies and headed to Staten Island.
Silcox was at it again last week packing supplies to send to Florida to help the individuals impacted by Hurricane Michael. She organized a group of other nurses who went down to help evacuate nursing homes as the storm hit. Her role was doing the legwork of organizing where to send her volunteers, in addition to still helping victims of Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas.
Silcox tells WBIR.com, “If we as human beings would reach out to our brothers and sisters and our neighbors, this world would be so much more amazing.”
To learn more about registered nurse Leslie Silcox and her efforts to help victims of Hurricane Michael, visit here.
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