Adventist Community Services Disaster Response volunteers have mobilized to provide needed supplies
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As New Orleans rescue teams work to retrieve those who are trapped on rooftops because their homes are flooded, Adventist Community Services (ACS) Disaster Response volunteers have mobilized to provide the survivors with needed supplies. After medical evaluation, those who have been rescued receive blankets, new clothing and personal kits, including toiletries from ACS Disaster Response volunteers before they are transported to nearby shelters.
The volunteers are distributing supplies that have been prepackaged and stored in large truck units and supply nearly 1,700 people, which the workers continually restock.
State officials are working to determine the full scale of the damages and thus have not yet identified specific items to donate. However, “monetary contributions allow responding organizations to purchase exactly what is most urgently needed by hurricane survivors…and to pay for the transportation necessary to distribute the supplies,” reports Disaster News Network. “By purchasing items nearer to the disaster site, it helps to build the economies of the local areas,” said Joe Watts, national coordinator of ACS Disaster Response. “The greatest help that anyone can provide is financial contributions,” explained Mr. Watts.
To join ACS Disaster Response in helping the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, please make a donation online by visiting www.communityservices.org, or calling 1-877-ACS-2702.