Records show Mississippi's surplus agency received household supplies, including dinnerware sets, towels, shirts, pants, shoes and cleaning items.

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Additionally, the bank has served as an incubator for social programs including the youth music group Companhia Bate Palmas, a vocational school, food security projects geared toward women, a general store and Palma brand clothing and cleaning items.

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World Vision has a team headed into the disaster zone with emergency food kits, blankets, cleaning supplies, hygiene items and tarps.

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