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31 Aug
2005
You Can Help.
Posted by Slobokan @ 10:27 pm
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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 SpanishOperation Blessing
1-800-436-6348America’s Second Harvest
1-800-344-8070Donate Cash to and Volunteer with:
Adventist Community Services
1-800-381-7171Catholic Charities, USA
1-800-919-9338Christian Disaster Response
941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
1-800-848-5818Church World Service
1-800-297-1516Convoy of Hope
417-823-8998Corporation for National and Community Service Disaster Relief Fund
(202) 606-6718Lutheran Disaster Response
800-638-3522Mennonite Disaster Service
717-859-2210Nazarene Disaster Response
888-256-5886Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
800-872-3283Salvation Army
1-800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769)Southern Baptist Convention — Disaster Relief
1-800-462-8657, ext. 6440United Methodist Committee on Relief
1-800-554-8583For further information: visit the website for the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) at: http://www.nvoad.org/.
Source: FEMA]
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Posted by Search Guy
December 3, 2006 @ 2:06 am
I have made a customized EMER I have made a customized EMERGENCY type search engine that links only to crisis situation type websites (like relief aide, evacuation planning layouts, crisis management setup and others relating to disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters, poverty, disease and man-made war), see http://www.CrisisSearch.com … This niche portal was made after the Katrina devastation and hopefully it will assist humanity in/during the next disasterous crisis…
Please add related crisis blogs and websites to the database, already 1,000 websites spidered for meta data (fetched meta tags for description, title and keywords, plus we then grab the text from page and cache it for further searchable data)…
Also a portal as at the bottom of every search page has external links. Also a ‘Suggestion Bot’ that tries to suggest similar terms to use in further queries… Blogs/forums are on the way (being created so people can find more personalized one-on-one advice/help) for people to post missing friends, family, pets or post about volunteering or possible stradegies for Emergency Planning for current crisises or Clean-Up plans for past disasters.
My first ever nonprofit humanitarian project was http://www.SpareSomeChange.com which only covers resources for those living homeless (I had suffered homelessness a few times as a youth). I will try to come up with other helping humanity type portals as I can afford too…
Posted by Logan
December 3, 2006 @ 2:06 am
Kudos on your efforts to brin Kudos on your efforts to bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. There is another way bloggers and other thoughtful people can help:
I have opened forums at http://www.DisasterReliefIdeas.org for the discussion of ideas to aid disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am not soliciting donations, only ideas. Experts in aspects of disaster relief (housing, healthcare, rebuilding, etc.) are also able to rate these ideas, giving us a means of identifying the most promising ones, which will be shared with disaster relief professionals and persons in authority. Please help our society by contributing your ideas, especially if you are unable to contribute financially to relief efforts.