Posted on 09/08/2005 2:35:50 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.
Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. We need help taking care of their pets, too.
If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you. Believe me, there are a lot of organizations who need your help.
Right now the site mostly covers Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas but I'm adding more every night. My wife was down at Reunion Arena in Dallas Tuesday handing out care packages and spiritually ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer. She says that the situation is tragic and that there's a lot of work to be done. There are so many children who don't know where their parents are or even if their parents are still alive.
There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would appreciate it if you would get the word out.
Many thanks,
Michael McCullough
Stingray blogsite
There's nothing I'd like better -- if I could find any way to get to the head of the class -- than to be in charge of this mess. I have found all my life as your basic New York Jew that anybody who says loudly "Here's what we're going to do!" becomes the leader, and it works for everything, even for overcrowded subway trains where people won't move down the car, to an incipient riot caused by people beginning to push and shove for no reason, to move more quickly than necessary or possible on a walkway ... to organizing child care in a day shelter. I'm sure they have people like that in charge in some places, but I'm betting that like in most shelter situations, most people want to be out front getting photo ops and nobody has the guts to pull some of them aside and giving them mops and buckets.
I have the feeling that one of these days God will put me in charge of one of these places ... but apparently it is not going to happen right away.
Being a southerner, I would probably want to stay in the south as well. It's home. :)
you 2 are making me hungry.
Good Point! FEMA may be reimbursing states for taking people in, but it could be that the $2k debit cards are prompting some of them to show up on relatives porches waving that card.
Or using it to buy a bus ticket to Auntie Mary's place or Cousin Lulu's -- or to the home of a college roommate who was just like family once upon a time.
A lot of them will blow the whole wad on a boom box, but I'm betting many others will take it and go home.
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