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http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm

A $100 donation to The Salvation Army will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies

To donate by mail, send checks, earmarked 'disaster relief,' to

Salvation Army

Disaster Relief

PO BOX 4857
JACKSON, MS
39296-4857

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I've been giving that Salvation Army $100 donation package quite a bit of thought. Giving household cleaning supplies to people sleeping on the floor of a shelter seems like putting the cart before the horse if you ask me; they don't have a household to clean any more and who knows when they will?

However, in the two years that I have lived in the Alexandria area, I have witnessed firsthand that our local Salvation Army shelter does wonderful work helping the homeless. If you want to get donations directly to the victims and cut out the middleman, please send help here instead of the Jackson PO box:

Salvation Army
620 Beauregard Street
Alexandria, LA 71301

Thanks for your interest!