Representing the American Red Cross, in 1990 Mr. Bobby Baines flew from Washington, D.C. to meet with the founder of Krishna Disaster Relief (Ronald E. Boutelle - Rohini-suta dasa) where Mr. Baines expressed the fact that during disasters, nowhere within FEMA, NOVAD, or the American Red Cross was anyone providing vegetarian meals to disaster victims. He told Ronald how the dietary landscape in America had drastically changed over the years and that relief agencies were struggling to fulfill the requirements of the large vegetarian population they were now encountering. This conversation took place at the Denver Federal Center and is why Mr. Baines was eager to facilitate Krishna Disaster Relief's membership into America's premier disaster relief organization. "With all our love and kindness, providing these vegetarian meals when disaster strikes is at the core of Krishna Disaster Relief's mission: feeding the victims of both manmade and natural disasters; both within and outside the United States."

In the future there are other areas of disaster relief that Krishna Disaster Relief will be working to provide, ranging from search & rescue, to a fully functional field hospital and more.

Limon, Colorado - Where it all began...

Arriving a few days after an F-3 Tornado smashed into Limon, Colorado, much to his surprise, Ronald Boutelle discovered an entirely different category of homelessness. It was right there, at that very moment in time when an enormous paradigm shift occurred when he discovered people who were "temporarily homeless due to a natural disaster." Even more telling, unlike the homeless on the streets of Denver who in general expressed little appreciation, the victims of this tornado showered Ronald with their sincerest gratitude. So it was this tornado, along with his military service in the United States Air Force that led to the creation of Krishna Disaster Relief.

The Limon, Colorado tornado was the perfect storm that on one hand was so destructive but on the other, monumental in connecting all the dots for the creation of Krishna Disaster Relief.

Click Here to watch a 1990 video that documents what happened on that fateful day.

Photo by Ronald Boutelle (Rohini-suta dasa) when he arrived in Limon

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Krishna Disaster Relief is a global, independent, charitable, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing vegetarian meals and other forms of support during natural and man-made disasters. Our Certificate of Formation, bylaws, list of directors and our corporate address has been registered with the Texas Secretary of State as required by law. Our request to be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit has been submitted and is pending.