hurricane katrina - Google Search
It is an awful thing with what has happened. The destruction of hurricane Katrina is totally devastating. All those poor people have nothing now. All of their lives have been up-rooted and changed forever.
Homes have been just simple blown over and leveled.
People were told to leave their pets at home and leave.
Looters are stealing guns and killing people and taking their belongings.
Search and rescue has stopped and has now turned to marshal law to stop the looters.
The police are commandeering the cars that looters have car-jacked to try to stop the looters from steeling.
People are just waiting for people to come save them from rooftops.
Hurricane Katrina looks to be the worst natural disaster in US history.
I have compiled a list of sites that accept donations to help in the relief efforts of this almost total annihilation hurricane Katrina has caused in Louisiana and the surrounding states.
Help The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina
American Red Cross
Founded in 1881, the American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors in emergencies. Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to the nearly one million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through almost 900 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Some four million people give blood through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of 181 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people.
http://www.redcross.org/
America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Founded in 1979, America's Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to a Network of 13 food banks in its first year operation. Today, the national Network secures and distributes nearly two billion pounds of food and grocery products to more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The food banks and food rescue organizations then distribute food and grocery products to approximately 35,000 programs operating 50,000 feeding agencies nationwide including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes and Community Kitchens.
http://www.secondharvest.org/
Feed the Children
Feed The Children is a Christian, international relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla., that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster. During our 25-year history, Feed The Children has created and developed one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to feeding hungry people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 61 million pounds of food and 22 million pounds of other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 62 foreign countries. Feed The Children supplemented 509,133 meals a day, worldwide.
http://www.feedthechildren.org/
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Since 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has been committed to alleviating pain, fear and suffering in all animals. The ASPCA is the oldest humane organization in America, and was founded by Henry Bergh, a philanthropist and diplomat who recognized the inhumane treatment suffered by many animals in our society. Growing from a small organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in New York City, especially farm and work animals, the ASPCA now runs a vast variety of programs to help animals nationwide. We offer national programs in humane education, public awareness, government advocacy, shelter support, and animal medical services and placement.
http://www.aspca.org/
AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supporting long-term humanitarian assistance programs, for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion. AmeriCares solicits donations of medicines, medical supplies and other relief materials from U.S. and international manufacturers, and delivers them quickly and efficiently to indigenous health care and welfare professionals around the world. Since its founding, AmeriCares has provided more than $4.0 billion of aid in more than 137 countries.
http://www.americares.org/
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $1 billion in assistance to 81 nations. Mercy Corps is known nationally and internationally for its quick-response, high-impact programs, which include projects in emergency relief, sustainable community development, and civil society initiatives. Mercy Corps is committed to long-term community-based efforts that help people help themselves. With headquarters in the United States and Scotland, Mercy Corps is an international family of humanitarian agencies that reaches more than six million people each year.
http://www.mercycorps.org/
Operation Blessing International
Operation Blessing International (OBI), founded in 1978, works to demonstrate God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world. In efforts to relieve human suffering we combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction with the provision of food, clothing, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities of life. We also help facilitate the development of healthy, vibrant and self-sustaining communities by addressing larger issues of education, food security, potable water, employment, community health, and disaster mitigation projects. In every endeavor, OBI seeks to exemplify Christian compassion and benevolence while conforming to the highest standards of integrity.
http://www.ob.org/
Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have hundreds of projects in more than 100 countries around the world.
http://www.samaritan.org/
World Emergency Relief
World Emergency Relief (WER) is an interdenominational fellowship of Christians worldwide, working together to help people in need, especially children and their families. Since 1991, WER has been a leader in promoting the responsible and ethical use of "gifts-in-kind" at our own projects worldwide, as well as projects we share with other outreaches. WER receives daily requests for commodities. We verify needs and cultural appropriateness of supplies we can procure. We then seek those supplies from corporate donors and other charities. Before shipping, we check that supplies are safe and usable, and we often must obtain import permission from foreign embassies in the U.S.
http://www.worldemergency.org/
Brother's Brother Foundation
Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) promotes international health and education through the efficient and effective distribution and provision of donated medical, educational, agricultural, and other resources. Since it began in 1958, BBF has helped people in over 120 countries, working through and in partnership with local agencies that want to help their own people. Together with partners in the United States and other more affluent countries, we have provided over $1,600,000,000 in goods and services, that includes 71,730 tons of medical supplies, text books, seeds and food that have touched many tens of millions with better health, education, nutrition, material security and hope.
http://www.brothersbrother.org/
Capital Area United Way
Capital Area United Way (CAUW) is a volunteer-based network of people who provide community services to those in need. CAUW is currently funding 54 health and human service agencies and 26 strategic grant programs in the 10-parish Capital Area. The organization has been making a difference in the Baton Rouge community since 1925. Trained and experienced volunteers ensure that every group receiving funds is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity governed by volunteers, and that it submits to an annual independent financial audit, and provides services at a reasonable cost.
http://www.cauw.org/
Christian Relief Fund
The Christian Relief Fund is dedicated to following Christ's example of ministering to human needs: spiritually, physically, and emotionally, by feeding the hungry, healing disease and heartbreak, fighting ignorance and poverty through education and preaching the Gospel through word and deed. Baxter Loe founded the Christian Relief Fund in May of 1971. The Christian Relief Fund has since grown to provide child sponsorship, family sponsorship, and operate children's homes and schools in third-world countries. CRF sponsorship programs and homes provide food, clothes, medical care, schooling, and Bible teaching in 22 countries. Currently nearly 3,000 children are being sponsored in our programs.
http://www.christianrelieffund.org/
Church World Service
Founded in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States. Working in partnership with indigenous organizations in more than 80 countries, CWS works worldwide to meet human needs and foster self-reliance for all whose way is hard. Within the United States, CWS assists communities in responding to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies, provides educational resources, and offers opportunities to join a people-to-people network of local and global caring through participation in Crop Walks, the Tools & Blankets Program, and the "Gift of the Heart" Kit Program.
http://www.churchworldservice.org/
Convoy of Hope
Convoy of Hope serves in the United States and around the world providing disaster relief, building supply lines and sponsoring outreaches to the poor and hurting in communities. During a COH outreach, free groceries are distributed, job and health fairs are organized and activities for children are provided. COH conducts events in approximately 30 cities and 10 countries each year, and partners with government, businesses and non-profit organizations to build community unity.
http://www.convoyofhope.org/
Homes have been just simple blown over and leveled.
People were told to leave their pets at home and leave.
Looters are stealing guns and killing people and taking their belongings.
Search and rescue has stopped and has now turned to marshal law to stop the looters.
The police are commandeering the cars that looters have car-jacked to try to stop the looters from steeling.
People are just waiting for people to come save them from rooftops.
Hurricane Katrina looks to be the worst natural disaster in US history.
I have compiled a list of sites that accept donations to help in the relief efforts of this almost total annihilation hurricane Katrina has caused in Louisiana and the surrounding states.
Help The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina
American Red Cross
Founded in 1881, the American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors in emergencies. Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to the nearly one million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through almost 900 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Some four million people give blood through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of 181 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people.
http://www.redcross.org/
America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Founded in 1979, America's Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to a Network of 13 food banks in its first year operation. Today, the national Network secures and distributes nearly two billion pounds of food and grocery products to more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The food banks and food rescue organizations then distribute food and grocery products to approximately 35,000 programs operating 50,000 feeding agencies nationwide including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes and Community Kitchens.
http://www.secondharvest.org/
Feed the Children
Feed The Children is a Christian, international relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla., that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster. During our 25-year history, Feed The Children has created and developed one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to feeding hungry people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 61 million pounds of food and 22 million pounds of other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and in 62 foreign countries. Feed The Children supplemented 509,133 meals a day, worldwide.
http://www.feedthechildren.org/
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Since 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has been committed to alleviating pain, fear and suffering in all animals. The ASPCA is the oldest humane organization in America, and was founded by Henry Bergh, a philanthropist and diplomat who recognized the inhumane treatment suffered by many animals in our society. Growing from a small organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in New York City, especially farm and work animals, the ASPCA now runs a vast variety of programs to help animals nationwide. We offer national programs in humane education, public awareness, government advocacy, shelter support, and animal medical services and placement.
http://www.aspca.org/
AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supporting long-term humanitarian assistance programs, for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion. AmeriCares solicits donations of medicines, medical supplies and other relief materials from U.S. and international manufacturers, and delivers them quickly and efficiently to indigenous health care and welfare professionals around the world. Since its founding, AmeriCares has provided more than $4.0 billion of aid in more than 137 countries.
http://www.americares.org/
Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $1 billion in assistance to 81 nations. Mercy Corps is known nationally and internationally for its quick-response, high-impact programs, which include projects in emergency relief, sustainable community development, and civil society initiatives. Mercy Corps is committed to long-term community-based efforts that help people help themselves. With headquarters in the United States and Scotland, Mercy Corps is an international family of humanitarian agencies that reaches more than six million people each year.
http://www.mercycorps.org/
Operation Blessing International
Operation Blessing International (OBI), founded in 1978, works to demonstrate God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world. In efforts to relieve human suffering we combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction with the provision of food, clothing, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities of life. We also help facilitate the development of healthy, vibrant and self-sustaining communities by addressing larger issues of education, food security, potable water, employment, community health, and disaster mitigation projects. In every endeavor, OBI seeks to exemplify Christian compassion and benevolence while conforming to the highest standards of integrity.
http://www.ob.org/
Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have hundreds of projects in more than 100 countries around the world.
http://www.samaritan.org/
World Emergency Relief
World Emergency Relief (WER) is an interdenominational fellowship of Christians worldwide, working together to help people in need, especially children and their families. Since 1991, WER has been a leader in promoting the responsible and ethical use of "gifts-in-kind" at our own projects worldwide, as well as projects we share with other outreaches. WER receives daily requests for commodities. We verify needs and cultural appropriateness of supplies we can procure. We then seek those supplies from corporate donors and other charities. Before shipping, we check that supplies are safe and usable, and we often must obtain import permission from foreign embassies in the U.S.
http://www.worldemergency.org/
Brother's Brother Foundation
Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) promotes international health and education through the efficient and effective distribution and provision of donated medical, educational, agricultural, and other resources. Since it began in 1958, BBF has helped people in over 120 countries, working through and in partnership with local agencies that want to help their own people. Together with partners in the United States and other more affluent countries, we have provided over $1,600,000,000 in goods and services, that includes 71,730 tons of medical supplies, text books, seeds and food that have touched many tens of millions with better health, education, nutrition, material security and hope.
http://www.brothersbrother.org/
Capital Area United Way
Capital Area United Way (CAUW) is a volunteer-based network of people who provide community services to those in need. CAUW is currently funding 54 health and human service agencies and 26 strategic grant programs in the 10-parish Capital Area. The organization has been making a difference in the Baton Rouge community since 1925. Trained and experienced volunteers ensure that every group receiving funds is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity governed by volunteers, and that it submits to an annual independent financial audit, and provides services at a reasonable cost.
http://www.cauw.org/
Christian Relief Fund
The Christian Relief Fund is dedicated to following Christ's example of ministering to human needs: spiritually, physically, and emotionally, by feeding the hungry, healing disease and heartbreak, fighting ignorance and poverty through education and preaching the Gospel through word and deed. Baxter Loe founded the Christian Relief Fund in May of 1971. The Christian Relief Fund has since grown to provide child sponsorship, family sponsorship, and operate children's homes and schools in third-world countries. CRF sponsorship programs and homes provide food, clothes, medical care, schooling, and Bible teaching in 22 countries. Currently nearly 3,000 children are being sponsored in our programs.
http://www.christianrelieffund.org/
Church World Service
Founded in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 36 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States. Working in partnership with indigenous organizations in more than 80 countries, CWS works worldwide to meet human needs and foster self-reliance for all whose way is hard. Within the United States, CWS assists communities in responding to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies, provides educational resources, and offers opportunities to join a people-to-people network of local and global caring through participation in Crop Walks, the Tools & Blankets Program, and the "Gift of the Heart" Kit Program.
http://www.churchworldservice.org/
Convoy of Hope
Convoy of Hope serves in the United States and around the world providing disaster relief, building supply lines and sponsoring outreaches to the poor and hurting in communities. During a COH outreach, free groceries are distributed, job and health fairs are organized and activities for children are provided. COH conducts events in approximately 30 cities and 10 countries each year, and partners with government, businesses and non-profit organizations to build community unity.
http://www.convoyofhope.org/
2 Comments:
I saw your post on a blog about your efforts to help in the hurricane areas. We are a group that has partnered with several hundred organizations and thousands of churches to bring a very coordinated faith-based effort to the task. In the very early days of Katrina we set up 21 relief centers in churches throughout the affected area. Our blog www.axiom.typepad.com/katrinarelief can fill you in on where they are all at, but many are the ones that you have seen repeatedly on the news.
Our purpose has been to empower those churches to be the church by bringing in all the supplies and set them up to minister to their community. When all the dust clears we want that church to shine and be in a position to be known better and for us all to have shown Jesus in a very real way.
Many of the groups that are involved together have worked around the world on these types of disasters and are very strategic in our partnerships to be the most effective. We are equally focused on ministry and relief in the area. We want people to know we are Christians and we love them. We have had tremendous favor with the local, state, and Federal government in all our efforts.
We would love to know you and see how we can help you in your endeavors to help in the relief efforts. We have a good army of rotating volunteers but definitely need more. We have been granted access to New Orleans proper in the next day and will need many to help with those efforts. We have had a good location in Gretna on the West Bank of New Orleans where we have two ships (Friendships) docked. We are housing and feeding volunteers from there in those efforts.
Yes we are also very involved in Rita with relief centers in Beaumont, Houma, Lake Chas, Bridge City, and many more with a staging center in Porter.
We can help volunteers get ready to come, provide them with insurance, get them clearance (if needed), and engage them with a team. We can also coordinate supplies into the areas that need them most. I hope we can work together.
Scott Michael Ringo
s.m.ringo@cox.net
757-748-4747 cell
757-282-2561 fax
www.axiom.typepad.com/katrinarelief
Partnering with the Katrina Relief Initiative
I saw your post on a blog about your efforts to help in the hurricane areas. We are a group that has partnered with several hundred organizations and thousands of churches to bring a very coordinated faith-based effort to the task. In the very early days of Katrina we set up 21 relief centers in churches throughout the affected area. Our blog www.axiom.typepad.com/katrinarelief can fill you in on where they are all at, but many are the ones that you have seen repeatedly on the news.
Our purpose has been to empower those churches to be the church by bringing in all the supplies and set them up to minister to their community. When all the dust clears we want that church to shine and be in a position to be known better and for us all to have shown Jesus in a very real way.
Many of the groups that are involved together have worked around the world on these types of disasters and are very strategic in our partnerships to be the most effective. We are equally focused on ministry and relief in the area. We want people to know we are Christians and we love them. We have had tremendous favor with the local, state, and Federal government in all our efforts.
We would love to know you and see how we can help you in your endeavors to help in the relief efforts. We have a good army of rotating volunteers but definitely need more. We have been granted access to New Orleans proper in the next day and will need many to help with those efforts. We have had a good location in Gretna on the West Bank of New Orleans where we have two ships (Friendships) docked. We are housing and feeding volunteers from there in those efforts.
Yes we are also very involved in Rita with relief centers in Beaumont, Houma, Lake Chas, Bridge City, and many more with a staging center in Porter.
We can help volunteers get ready to come, provide them with insurance, get them clearance (if needed), and engage them with a team. We can also coordinate supplies into the areas that need them most. I hope we can work together.
Scott Michael Ringo
s.m.ringo@cox.net
757-748-4747 cell
757-282-2561 fax
www.axiom.typepad.com/katrinarelief
Partnering with the Katrina Relief Initiative
Post a Comment
<< Home