Help Katrina’s victims
Click the Red Cross logo above to make a donation, or read the rest of this entry for an annotated list of relief agencies.
Annotated list of agencies (courtesy of Albert)
Relief focus: Shipping emergency supplies and other essential items to children and families in the Gulf Coast region.
Relief focus: Helping disaster victims rebuild piece by piece and house by house.
Humane Society of the United States
Relief focus: Dispatching Disaster Animal Response Teams (DARTs) to rescue animals and assist their caregivers.
American Friends Service Committee
Relief focus: Providing crisis relief to those affected by the hurricane.
Relief focus: Providing immediate response to emergency medical needs, as well as supporting long-term humanitarian assistance programs.
Relief focus: Transports food to victims and secures additional warehouse space to assist member food banks in resuming and maintaining operations.
Relief focus: Provides a full spectrum of services to disaster victims, including shelter, medical care, food, clean water and assisting with cleanup efforts.
Relief focus: Community based relief efforts focused on the long-terms needs of disaster victims and affected communities.
Relief focus: Serves as a private back-up support to official emergency response efforts in the United States.
Relief focus: Mobilizing and distributing supplies in hurricane devastated areas.
Relief focus: Keeping animals alive during disasters.
Relief focus: Providing hot meals to displaced disaster victims and emergency personnel working to aid those devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Relief focus: Community organized and administered humanitarian relief for disaster victims.
United Methodist Committee on Relief
Relief focus: General community-based disaster relief, as well as the creation and distribution of “flood buckets”—a relief item for those who prefer to donate with a personal touch.
Relief focus: Identifying serious needs of devastated communities and helping not only with front-line disaster relief but with long-term recovery.
Relief focus: Providing a compassionate shelter for all companion animals.
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