Re: How to Help

Thanks, Connie, yours is a helpful post.

"Poppy - San Francisco Bay Area" <GoldenStatePoppy@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should Not
> Self-Dispatch
>
> Release Date: August 29, 2005
> Release Number: HQ-05-177
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Voluntary organizations are seeking cash donations
> to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina in Gulf Coast states, according
> to Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency
> Preparedness and Response. But, volunteers should not report directly
> to the affected areas unless directed by a voluntary agency.
>
> "Cash donations are especially helpful to victims," Brown said.
> "They allow volunteer agencies to issue cash vouchers to victims so
> they can meet their needs. Cash donations also allow agencies to avoid
> the labor-intensive need to store, sort, pack and distribute donated
> goods. Donated money prevents, too, the prohibitive cost of air or sea
> transportation that donated goods require."
>
> Volunteer agencies provide a wide variety of services after disasters,
> such as clean up, childcare, housing repair, crisis counseling,
> sheltering and food.
>
> "We're grateful for the outpouring of support already," Brown
> said. "But it's important that volunteer response is coordinated by
> the professionals who can direct volunteers with the appropriate skills
> to the hardest-hit areas where they are needed most. Self-dispatched
> volunteers and especially sightseers can put themselves and others in
> harm's way and hamper rescue efforts."
>
> Here is a list of phone numbers set up solely for cash donations and/or
> volunteers.
>
> Donate cash to:
>
> American Red Cross
> 1-800-HELP NOW (435-7669) English,
> 1-800-257-7575 Spanish;
>
> Operation Blessing
> 1-800-436-6348
>
> America's Second Harvest
> 1-800-344-8070
>
> Donate Cash to and Volunteer with:
>
> Adventist Community Services
> 1-800-381-7171
>
> Catholic Charities, USA
> 703 549-1390
>
> Christian Disaster Response
> 941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554
>
> Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
> 1-800-848-5818
>
> Church World Service
> 1-800-297-1516
>
> Convoy of Hope
> 417-823-8998
>
> Lutheran Disaster Response
> 800-638-3522
>
> Mennonite Disaster Service
> 717-859-2210
>
> Nazarene Disaster Response
> 888-256-5886
>
> Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
> 800-872-3283
>
> Salvation Army
> 1-800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769)
>
> Southern Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief
> 1-800-462-8657, ext. 6440
>
> United Methodist Committee on Relief
> 1-800-554-8583
>
> For further information: visit the website for the National Voluntary
> Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) at: http://www.nvoad.org/.
>
> FEMA prepares the nation for all hazards and manages federal response
> and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also
> initiates mitigation activities, trains first responders, works with
> state and local emergency managers, and manages the National Flood
> Insurance Program and the U.S. Fire Administration. FEMA became part of
> the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003.
>
> www.fema.gov
>


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