At The Observer, we’ve seen a lot of photos of conditions on the Florida coast after Hurricane Michael swept through. Houses and businesses were reduced to boards scattered around and their contents strewn so far most will never be found. And items that are found may never again be fit to use.

The sense of devastation comes right through the photographs as we flip through them to decide what to include with the reporting of the hurricane’s aftermath.

We want to help, and Jim Lowry brought to us a proposal.

Lowry is the retired CEO of Colquitt Regional Medical Center. He owns a house in Port St. Joe, Fla., and spends part of his year here and part of it down there. His house was spared the worst of Michael’s wrath, but he knows people throughout that part of Florida. He proposed sending trucks from Moultrie to Port St. Joe with relief supplies. He’s gotten four local churches on board as collection points and Broadleaf Trucking has agreed to transport what’s collected.

Lowry’s plan is simple enough.

His connections in Port St. Joe will give him a list of the five items they need the most. He’ll pass the list on to the churches and The Observer, and we’ll each pick one of the needed items. Each church will ask its congregation to donate its item, and The Observer will ask you, our readers, to donate the thing we wind up with. Those things could change week-to-week as conditions change along the coast.

“What we need is a lot of a few items,” Lowry said.

First Methodist Church is asking its congregation for one-gallon containers of bleach; First Baptist is asking for disposable plastic gloves; Trinity Baptist for tarps; and First Presbyterian for laundry soap.

We’re asking you for work gloves. Those piles of boards that used to be homes and businesses? They’ve got splinters and nails and glass all around them, and somebody’s got to reach down and move them.

Please take one or two pairs of cotton work gloves — the kind you’d use for heavy-duty yard work — to any of the participating churches between 9 a.m. and noon Monday-Friday. They’ll box them up and get them ready to transport to Port St. Joe.

Relief agencies in Port St. Joe will get them to people who need them throughout that part of the coast.

This will be an ongoing campaign. To fully participate will cost a little bit every week, but these donations will mean an enormous amount to the people who receive them.

Let’s lend Florida a hand.