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Originally Posted by lunachick
I don't know what you can do. The state is crying out for help. Call Red Cross. Call Habitat for Humanity. Call for your local representatives to pressure the pharmaceutical companies to get free medicines down there. Call Red Cross.
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luna, the Red Cross has no idea what the hell they are doing, are overwhelemed, or their normal organization has broken down because they've been forced to work with "faith based" relief by FEMA. When we called them they had no idea where to send us or what we could do. They had a list of nearby shelters that was completely incorrect and sent us running off to an empty, locked church. Finally they said "We don't know. Send money". We found the shelter on our own. I thought I would find order....I found chaos.
I was handed a baby and she was siezing in my arms...nobody at the shelter knew who the mother was, and hadn't seen this baby before. There was no ID on children, they were running wild and the parents no where to be found. Not one item at that shelter was bought with the millions they have collected...every stitch of clothing, bar of soap, and morsel of food was donated by locals like me and sorted/distributed through Catholic charities. I had to give them a fax machine because they didn't have one. My dad was calling Office Depot to try to get a copier for health questionaires and was told "We donated a million dollars to Red Cross already"...the shelter didn't have copiers or phones or any basic equipment.
People were sleeping on donated matteresses and getting lice....they should be on sanitary cots. Where are the cots? What is the money being spent on?
We have some gas. And can go to Mississippi
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