KDC CEO Steve Van Amburgh and his property development company have helped homeless people in the Dallas-Fort Worth region beat the recent triple-digit heat by distributing reusable bottles filled with natural spring water.
The firm behind the major Wells Fargo campus in Irving, Texas, and its employees recently teamed up with 10 local nonprofit groups serving the region’s most vulnerable residents to distribute more than 250,000 full bottles.
This summer has been one of the hottest on record in the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area, with the temperature hitting 100 degrees or higher 53 days this year. It ranks as the region’s fourth-hottest summer on record, according to the National Weather Service.
KDC responded to a rallying cry from nonprofit groups seeking to hydrate homeless people in the area. Van Amburgh said without a home or a shelter with air conditioning, these vulnerable residents of the community need to drink plenty of water — and his team could help.
The firm is supplying the water bottles along with the Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation. “Since the heat isn’t stopping, neither is the plan to continue distributing water," Van Amburgh said.