Cafferty: What is YOUR Community Doing to Help?? Post Here!!

[Barack_America]

Well? What's the story in your neighborhood?

Don't know? Then call your leaders and find out! And ask them how YOU can help! Spread the word, recruit your friends and neighbors!

Community not doing anything? Then tell them that it's inexcusable! Then call the local media and tell them to get on them!


Here in Philly it was announced that 1,000 families (5-6,000) people will be relocated here. I've sent this info as a bulk e-mail to my school and gotten some people (including myself of course, to sign-up for the volunteer effort)

Not on a high-horse here, just giving an example of things that can be done.

[xultar]

1. My family is personally adopting a family here in the ATL area.

[Barack_America]

2. That is wonderful news...bless you!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. NWA had a television Red Cross drive yesterday - $350K and

the Arkansas State Police was heading out this morning as an armed escort for several semis full of food and supplies.

[Barack_America]

4. Great! Sorry, not sure what NWA is?

Are you in Arkansas? Any chance your community might be willing to take in some families??

[Citizen Jane]

5. Emory University in Atlanta is doing a few things...

HEALTH CARE Emory's immediate role as a healthcare provider has been to treat medically needy refugees from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some are being airlifted in through Dobbins AFB, and others are presenting at our clinics and hospitals after making their way to Atlanta independently. Emory School of Medicine physicians have received about a dozen patients to date at Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Emory University Hospital and have admitted thirteen more who were airlifted overnight to Grady Memorial Hospital. They have also delivered two babies for parents who drove to Atlanta from New Orleans, and have treated and written prescriptions for a hundred or more Katrina-related patients who made their way to Grady clinics through various means.

Emory Healthcare has established a Hurricane Relief telephone line for Emory University employees as well as Emory Healthcare employees at 404-778-7222. This line will be answered Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Here you can find resources and information that may be of assistance in locating family members or friends in the affected areas.

STUDENTS AND FACULTY FROM AFFECTED UNIVERSITIES Emory is working actively with the Association of American Universities and other national higher education organizations to identify and respond to the needs of individual students and institutions. We believe that most, if not all, of these students will find places to continue their study, if they wish.

Although most of our academic divisions are more than fully subscribed, we will enroll as transient students for the fall semester about 100 undergraduate students in Emory College, the School of Nursing, and the Business School. Enrolling these students in temporary status, rather than as transfers, protects the future viability of the institutions in which the students are currently enrolled.

In response to the deans of Tulane Law School and Loyola (New Orleans) Law School, Emory Law School will admit some 40 second- and third-year students from those two schools as transient students.

The Goizueta Business School MBA program has offered to enroll 30 to 40 second-year MBA students.

The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing also is accepting transient applications for graduate programs.

Faculty and staff from the Rollins School of Public Health are working closely with the Tulane School of Public Health to address the academic needs of approximately three dozen international students evacuated from New Orleans to Atlanta.

The Emory Libraries are offering to all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students at institutions affected by Hurricane Katrina borrowing privileges, interlibrary loan privileges, and access to the Information Commons (databases) in Woodruff.

HOUSING FOR NONACADEMIC REFUGEES Campus Life has offered the gymnasium in the Student Activity and Academic Center on Clairmont Campus to the Red Cross for temporary housing, if needed, for 100 to 150 refugees. Unfortunately all dormitory and apartment space on campus is fully occupied owing to larger-than-anticipated classes in all divisions. A number of Emory community members have indicated willingness to take in students or others displaced by the hurricane for extended periods. If you know of someone from the Gulf areas in need of housing, or are willing to make room available, contact Gary Hauk, vice president and deputy to the President, at [e-mail].

[tulsakatz]

6. Tulsa, Ok

The Red Cross in my area is helping too. I might go over there and volunteer on my days off.....

The Tulsa chapter of the American Red Cross is helping refugees that have arrived in Tulsa from areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Nellie Kelly, a spokeswoman for the chapter, says they opened a shelter Thursday at Crosstown Church of Christ at Harvard and Admiral. It will be open 24 hours a day until further notice. Kelly stresses that families coming to the Tulsa area need to stop by the shelter and register so the Red Cross will know how to contact them.

About 175 refugees have already arrived in the Tulsa area. Some of those families have received food, clothing and other help from the Tulsa chapter of the Red Cross. Most of those said they had family members in the area.

[Barack_America]

7. This is all great! I just wish there was better coordination!

I'm not even sure of all the little things, just the city government's efforts