Help Katrina Victims

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For those trying to offer housing to Katrina victims (who BTW cannot view your offers for help due to lack of Internet access), they should register at the National Emergency Resource Registry found at https://www.swern.gov/emergency/asset_index.php. It's a database used by emergency response people to locate services/materials being offered. They will contact YOU if your offer is needed/accepted.

For those trying to offer housing to Katrina victims (who BTW cannot view your offers for help due to lack of Internet access), they should register at the National Emergency Resource Registry found at https://www.swern.gov/emergency/asset_index.php. It's a database used by emergency response people to locate services/materials being offered. They will contact YOU if your offer is needed/accepted.

For those trying to offer housing to Katrina victims (who BTW cannot view your offers for help due to lack of Internet access), they should register at the National Emergency Resource Registry found at https://www.swern.gov/emergency/asset_index.php. It's a database used by emergency response people to locate services/materials being offered. They will contact YOU if your offer is needed/accepted.

I am a recent doctoral graduate from Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Dept. of Environmental Health. My expertise is in exposure/risk assessment as it pertains to various toxics and water quality, among others. I also have an extensive background in veterinary medicine, food safety and sanitation.
I am immediately available to assist in the disaster response in any capacity deemed fitting for my education and abilities. Any assistance in identifying an agency/organization that might find my expertise useful wouls be appreciated. You may contact me by email at DrGabbiano@yahoo.com
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Restoration International Ministries Inc of Cresco Iowa is working in conjunction with”SomebodyCares” to deliver a truck load of clothing, water, non perishable food and other needed items to the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. We are leaving Cresco on the 9th September. All donations are 100% tax deductable and checks are to be made out to Restoration International Ministries Inc and mark for “katrina Relief Fund”. Restoration International Ministries Inc is a registered 501c3 public charity under group number 5101.

hi folks i'm loking for a place to donate clothing, blankets etc but as of now salvation army or red cross does not want this stuff. I deliver packages in two countys in montana not a rich area but we would like to do our part and that isn't money at this time. If anyone has any ideas of who to contact I'd really like to get some stuff out to those who could use it. Please leave a message here or email me at ed.b@mtintouch.net thanks and good luck to all the survivers and I'll be praying for you all.

I am located in Southern California. I am also looking for a way to get clothing and blankets to to Katrina victims. Any suggestions, email me at vanharenfamily@yahoo.com.

Maybe you could have a “Rent-my-chest-a-thon” and donate the proceeds to a disaster relief charity. Or have you already thought of that?

Hi My Name is Danielle, My family is from slidell, Louisiana and are currently in Alabama. We lost everything due to Katrina.
My husband and I have a 2 year old and a 7 year old. If any one knows of any help out there please let me know. Red cross help us get into an apartment, Fema on the other hand has been missing in action. My husband has recently found a job here but the pay is so different from where we are from, I guess a small town, I dont know. But know we have the bills here, also the bills back home we still have to take care of a house to still pay on in Louisiana even though it is not there anymore, and food and get clothes, Pretty much just start our lives all over with 4 outfits each. I mainly want to find help for my kids ( They come first ) clothes and food.. If anyone knows of any help please let me know ( anything will help ).
email address - michaelson0416@yahoo.com
Contact Information - 1845 Northcrest Drive NW
Apt. B323
Cullman, Alabama
Thanks Again..

please, i am a katrina victum and am in need of household items. I had to relocate to houston, and currently have very little in me and my husbands apartment. If anyone can help please email me at astoneoliveri@hotmail.com. If all yall can give is prayer i would really appriciate it. thank you.

i tiffany is a victim .katrina left me and my family homeless and tryiny so very hard to get hour life back with out help were do we start .prays are first

god bless amercia

im Joyce im a katrina victim from new orleans,im in need of cloths.food,etc,thanks and God Bless You

my email address is Jada_williams51@yahoo.com

I am a katrina victim i ended up in iowa.i was wondering how I can get some help for christmas i have 3 kids and i can not work because of my health.And my wife can not work because oneof our kids has chronic bronchitis,asthma,adhd,mental retardation,autism,speechapraxia and motor apraxia, so he needs to be watched all the time.And we cant afford a home nurse to come in and watch him while my wife works.This is going to be the saddest christmas for our children. My oldest is 11 and is a boy and my other boy is 8 and my daughter is 5. So if anyone out there knows of any place that can help us please let us know at yankyhorseman@yahoo.com.
Any information would be highly appreciated God Bless!!! Have a pleasant day.

Our govt. is so screwed up,I have 3 children(over 18) who are still living there and they keep asking me “Dad, when are you coming home? I have to tell them ” Where would I live? we don’t have a home anymore and being as I’m disabled,all I get whenever I think I’ve finally got a phone no. of someone,and all they do is “PASS THE BUCK” I’ve been looking for a way home for almost 2 yrs. Give my thanks to Gov.Blanco and Pres. Bush PS I parked my 2000 Ford F-150 with about $1000. Dollars of tools at the B.R. Airport and they had it towed (which is understandable) and the towing co. RoadRunner Towing and Storage SOLD IT!!!! and I have yet to see my money,I wrote to Sen Ken Hollis and he told me I should get a lawyer!

The day after the September 11th attacks was my 18th birthday. Seems like ever since then some horrific entity is slapping me in the face and laughing. After that the tsunami hit, killing a quarter million people, and 2 days before September again Katrina hits. Just as i got my life together, a condo on the beach in long beach, ms. Right past gulfport and biloxi. Not only was i so high on life and running my own business back then through local connections, things were seemingly perfect at age 22. Then, that wretched smell of death hurricane took everything i know in a single day. It truly was impressive in all aspects. We wen’t from living in the US to a third world country, except with less water and food. This is the least of my problems, as 2 years later me and my family have incurred a host of truly sad problems. I’m not one to yearn for pity, but it is as if the most genius of all persons planned this storm and the events to follow so maticulously and purposefully. It was indeed, error-proof. To this day, i have lost any type of financial success, i dread going to sleep because of the recurring nightmares, and my family whom was once so so close, are distant strangers. I am a broken person. There was no assistance given, redcross and fema are truly laughable, and i hope nobody buys into them, because i was on ground zero for ever, stayed in camps after, and i never saw a single thing done. Wait, they all gave us a credit card with 200 dollars on it.. as if there WAS a place to spend money at the time. This was the only assistance i got from the hurricane. Insurance companies refused to pay, huge lawsuits ensued, yet will not finalize for years to come. What is a person like me supposed to do? I have zero opportunities to even attempt to capitalize on. I feel like Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest. All that wasted talent, all that personality and depth to give back to society in a positive manner. I used to light a room up when i walked into it. Now, there are no rooms to be lit. I won’t ask for help, because the only help that would work is personal help. I still haven’t figured out why a person wants to donate to these large various sects, rather than to pick a specific individual out and change a single persons life entirely, something proof positive. They would seem entirely more satisfying to me, but that is me.

Sincerely,

Michael Joshua Logan
ex@bluemgp.com

My name is Courtney, I’m a resident of Gulfport, MS and My family and I were ‘victims of Katrina’…but did not endure as much damage as most. I have always been a firm believer in that “everything happens for a reason”. Though the storm has destroyed most of what we’ve all loved, or ever even known for that matter…it’s given many people a second chance at success. There is always going to be the person that blows the money they were given on needless materials, but some took it as a blessing.. a new beginning. I’ve witnessed quite a few people around me that were able to put their kids in a better school, some invested in a better home.

Katrina, for me, was an eye-opener. I’ve been through a few storms before this…but none have phased my life as much. I’m living my life day by day now, when I see someone in need of something, I do everything in my power to help. I recently got back into the arts and started painting again. I will be donating a few of my paintings to a silent auction, in which the proceeds with be given to families greatly affected by Katrina.

With all of that said… I’d like to share a quote with readers:
“Repair someone today… if not… yourself.”

Thanks-