YOU CAN HELP KATRINA SURVIVORS

Leisa

Leisa

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<B>Please Help Hurricane Katrina Survivors</B><p><font face=tahoma size=3 color=black>
There are approximately 1 million homeless people in Louisiana & Mississippi due to this horrible storm.
<BR>You can help by going to the
<A HREF="http://redcross.org/" target="new"><font color=crimson><B>American Red Cross.</B></font></A>
<BR>You will find the link there to donate using a credit card.
<BR><BR><B>Every $5.00 Will Help!</B>
<p><font face=tahoma size=3 color=black>You can also contact your local American Red Cross office to see if they need any actual goods. According to their web site, they typically do not accept goods, but considering that so many people lost everything, they may be more inclined to accept clothing donations at this time.
<BR>Again, this is something your local office can tell you.
<BR><BR><B>Just Think!</B> If everyone you know and everyone <B>they</B> know and everyone <B><I>they</I></B> know ... donates <B>just $5.00</B>, that will add up to some serious help.
<BR><BR>So - please send people to read this or pass it on.
<BR><BR><font face=georgia size=4 color=purple><I>"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace...that where this is despair, I may bring hope..."</I></font>
<BR><BR>Thanks for reading. Now Get Busy!
 
Thanks, Leisa. This is great. I'm going to copy and put on my website. Think I will also put a blurb in my emails.

My family is in Mississippi, close to the coast, and I have been trying to call since Monday afternoon. All you get is a busy signal. We don't know whether they are alright or not. My brother lives in Jackson which is in the middle of the state and he is without power and had to leave his home until it is turned back on..whenever that will be.
 
Linda - it's just horrible down there.

My friends ran to Los Angeles to be with the rest of the family. They knew it was going to be bad, so they're just kind of moving there for now.
I finally got to talk to one of the L.A. kids earlier today & I am soooo relieved to hear everyone is okay!

Hope you hear from your family soon!

xoxoxo
leisa
 
I can tell you that from personal experience with Frances and Ivan last year, that the Red Cross and Salvation Army were right there from the very beginning to assist with water, food, clean-up supplies, counciling - you name it. We'd have never made it without them. Both groups are already moving in to help in Mississippi and Louisiana, and I'm sure they can use our financial help.
 
There is another charity that I am looking into.

I saw the people from I want to say Noak's Ark, but I don't think that was it, but it contains "Noah" in the name. They went around in boats and by foot to help save the animals. I am going to try to research to find out who they are and donate to them as well.

This group was going around in boats and taking the dogs and cats out of the water that managed to survive/barely survive, others were stranded atop roofs or in trees as well as a few foxes and other animals that had been stranded atop things, etc. Many wild animals hightailed it out of there at the first whiff of a storm, like the elephants did before the Tsunami but some were still there. They had a lot of sad work as they found the animals that were trapped by their heartless owners, left chained up in their yards with no chance to survive. They were pleading with people that if you don't care about your pets and won't take them with you, at least unchain them so they have at least a fighting chance to save themselves. If they treat their animals that way, how do they treat their children???

Anyways, off my soap box, but it really is something that saddens me and I wish I could just save them all.

Chris
 
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