[24753] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Hurricane Katrina
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yusef albader)
Wed Aug 31 23:02:12 2005
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:01:58 -0700
Reply-To: yusef albader <ybka@yahoo.com>
From: yusef albader <ybka@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <43127EF9.7060306@gmail.com>
Derek,
thank you for taking the time and effort to put this
together and keep everyone updated on whats going on.
I also would like to take this apportunity to
encourage everyone to consider a donation to the red
cross.
As of a few minutes ago CNN.com is
reporting that the city of New Orleans is going to be
without power for atleast a month, maybe longer. The
city is now being completely evacuated because of the
public health risk posed by flood waters. Tens of
thousands of people have been displaced, and are going
to need food, water, and shelter in the coming days.
As it has before the Red Cross has stepped up to help
these people. There are several ways to help out, but
the most effective right now is donating money to the
red cross's disaster relief fund:
http://www.redcross.org/
the direct link to their online donations page
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
please consider a donation, since even 5 dollars helps
out (and its the price of a latte at starbucks..).
--- "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@gmail.com>
wrote:
> As Hurricane Katrina bears down on the U.S. gulf
> coast, threatening the
> cities of New Orleans, LA and Gulfport, MS, as a
> powerful category 5
> storm, Alpha Phi Omega chapters and members will no
> doubt be called to
> participate in relief efforts of some type. CNN is
> currently reporting
> Katrina as potential the SECOND MOST POWERFUL
> hurricane since Camille in
> 1969. The storm surge is expected at around 25 feet
> and CNN already is
> using words such as, "catastrophic" to describe the
> outcome.
>
> To aid in coordinating the relief efforts, I have
> posted some
> information on the national service website
> regarding the storm:
>
> http://members.apo.org/service/
>
> I will keep this as updated as I can with
> information concentrating on
> the relief efforts, whom to contact, where to give,
> and so forth. Though
> I won't be updating with live weather information,
> as I've just provided
> a link to weather.com and wunderground.com there
> (the meteorologist's
> already do a great job with that).
>
> As chapters plan and execute relief service
> projects, we ask that the
> details of the project be reported. While this is
> not mandatory (as is
> the case with NSW or SYSD), reporting projects will
> help the national
> fraternity in many ways, including allowing us to
> track the total number
> of service hours, funds raised, and other stats
> about the national
> efforts. Individual chapters will also greatly
> benefit by this by being
> able to search the projects in the national service
> database for future
> emergency response and other projects.
>
> To facilitate in the reporting of projects, the
> service database has
> been updated with a new PROJECT TYPE (Emergency
> Response Projects).
> Chapters are also asked to put, "Hurricane Katrina
> Relief:" in the
> PROJECT TITLE field as well, to assist in future
> searching.
>
> Lastly, say a few prayers to whatever God you
> believe in, because this
> one is going to be pretty bad. I hear there's still
> many people in New
> Orleans itself that can't leave the city -
> supposedly 10,000 people are
> being sheltered in the Superdome.
>
> --
> Derek J. Cashman, Ph.D.
> derek.cashman@gmail.com
>
> Leadership Development, Media & Technology, and
> Service Committees
> Alpha Phi Omega
>
> "A drug is any substance which, when injected into a
> rat, produces a publishable,
> scientific paper."
>
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