6 days later and people are still not fully evacuated from the devastation...More than 10,000 feared dead..
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Go here for information, emergency telephone numbers, links to up to the minute news and blogs, relief agencies you can give money to, timelines for what happened, maps...
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Just found out that Amazon.com is doing a one click donation to the American red Cross for Katrina victims...so if you are an amazon member it will take you less than a minute to give those in need..
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Moveon.org has a project called hurricanehousing.org...if you have space for a refugee family from the Katrina stricken areas..you can sign up here to shelter them...these people are homeless now..
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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) has a disaster recovery fund you can contribute to..
This is important because the easiest thing in the world to do is to give a few KD/Dollars away and think 'that's it, work over'...but the NAACP is going :
"2) to advocate for equitable distribution of money and resources from Federal, state and local government and other relief agencies to those hardest hit by this catastrophe. "
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Because a lot of the time the money you think is going to go to the most needy actually doesn't.. That's why it's important to take steps beyond just giving money and actually start asking questions like Why? Where? How? and Who? when disasters like this take place. We can't just puff up our feathers and say we shouldn't ask or wonder or question..we should only give and feel proud of ourselves...giving is easy..especially when you are safe and comfortable in your own home with your loved ones around you and people are suffering so savagely right in front of you..it's the very least we can do...but to hopefully prevent suffering, questions have to be asked, people like the NAACP have to advocate for fairness and responsibility and we have to try to stop the attitude of 'I'll fix it only when it's broken', and instead ask things that are painful so that next time something this broken doesn't have to happen.
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Teamrescue is set up by rapper Master P and his wife Sonya Miller
I got the last two links from this very blood-curdling article which also has other places you can help..
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If you are in the states or intend to go you can volunteer at any of these agencies that accept volunteers..
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