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List of Relief Organizations
Volunteer agencies provide a wide variety of services after disasters, such as clean up, childcare, housing repair, crisis counseling, sheltering and food. Below is a list of phone numbers set up solely for cash donations and/or volunteers:
Please bear with the emergency personnel and rescue teams and realize that it may be difficult to get through because of downed communication lines, and the overwhelming life-saving measures that are taking place. If you are aware of additional phone numbers or website that may be useful, please let us know. We will update this list as more information becomes available.
Louisiana (see http://www.louisiana.gov/wps/portal/)
To report missing persons, please call the American Red Cross at 1(866) 438-4636. Louisiana Governor Blanco's hotline: 800-469-4828 Louisiana Evacuation Office: 225-925-7514 Louisiana State Police: 225-925-7708 or 7709 Shelter Information: Red Cross- 1(866)(438-4636) Special Needs Shelter Information Triage Phone Numbers: Alexandria: 800-841-5778 Baton Rouge: 800-349-1372 Slidell/Hammond: 866-280-7724 Lafayette: 800-901-3210 Lake Charles: 866-280-2711 Monroe: 866-280-7287 Houma/Thibodaux: 800-228-9409
Here is a list of phone numbers set up solely for cash donations and/or volunteers. To donate cash, please call: American Red Cross 1-800-435-7669 English 1-800-257-7575 Spanish Operation Blessing 1-800-436-6348 America’s Second Harvest 1-800-344-8070 Donate Cash to and Volunteer with: Adventist Community Services 1-800-381-7171 Catholic Charities, USA 703 549-1390 Christian Disaster Response 941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554 Christian Reformed World Relief Committee 1-800-848-5818 Church World Service 1-800-297-1516 Convoy of Hope 417-823-8998 Lutheran Disaster Response 1-800-638-3522 Mennonite Disaster Service 717-859-2210 Nazarene Disaster Response 888-256-5886 Presbyterian Disaster Assistance 1-800-872-3283 Salvation Army 1-800-725-2769 Southern Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief 1-800-462-8657, ext. 6440 United Methodist Committee on Relief 1-800-554-8583 For further information: please visit the website for the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) at: http://www.nvoad.org/
Mississippi (see www.mema.ms.gov ) Red Cross 1-866-Get Info (Missing Persons) To report missing persons, please email missingpersons@seoc.ms.gov Use this form: www.mema.ms.gov/missing.person.form.gov Red Cross 1-800-Help Now (Donations) MDOT traffic hotline: 601-352-7017 Volunteers
Medical personnel: Doctors call: 601-987-3079; EMTs call: 601-576-8085; Nurses call: 601-497-8022
Non-professional volunteers: contact Red Cross, Salvation Army other established volunteer organizations.
Alabama (http://www.governor.state.al.us/hurricane_katrina/katrina2.htm)
Alabamians who want to volunteer for disaster relief efforts can sign up over the Internet through the Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The website where Alabamians can sign up to volunteer is www.servealabama.gov/
American Red Cross 1-866-GET-INFO For assistance, to volunteer or to assist click here: http://www.redcross.org/
Alabama Emergency Management Agency 205-280-2200 Click below for your county EMA contact information: http://207.157.116.10
Alabama Department of Transportation Emergency Road Closure Information and Evacuation Updates: 1-888-588-2848 or 1-334-353-6650 http://www.dot.state.al.us/docs
Attorney General 1-800-392-5658 To report price gouging contact the Consumer Affairs Office: http://www.ago.state.al.us/
Alabama Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation 1-800-367-0955 Facilities and Health Care Information
Other:
B'nai B'rith International, 2020 K Street, N.W., Seventh Floor, Washington, D.C., 20006; or online by going to www.bnaibrith.org and clicking on the link for disaster relief. United Jewish Communities, P.O. Box 30, Old Chelsea Station, N.Y., 10113, attention: Hurricane Katrina. Mark the memo section of checks with "Katrina." Phone: 1- 877-277-2477 Union for Reform Judaism can be made at www.urj.org/give. Information on the Disaster Relief Fund can be found at www.urj.org/relief. International Aid Global Headquarters 17011 W. Hickory Spring Lake, Michigan 49456-9712, USA Phone: (616) 846.7490 Fax: (616) 846.3842 Toll Free: (800) 968-7490 24-hour Donation Line: (800) 251.2502 The website is www.internationalaid.org
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