Dear Silver List, Please donate to the Salvation Army or directly to other groups such as Baptist, Luthern or Menonite Disaster Relief. And don't forget this will be a LONG TERM effort - years and years.
I am scheduled to go to Louisiana next week and Helen GA this week. I have been responding to disasters since Mt St Helen. The Red Cross does great things, but the Salvation Army stays till the job is done. The Red Cross literally is there as long as the cameras are there and then their efforts are VERY low key and their people are not as well trained. Also, in Georgia, the Red Cross turns around and calls the GA Baptist Disaster Relief and THEY do the responding and the Baptist are paying for it - 90% of the time. GA Baptist has the equipment and volunteers for preparing meals, debris clean-up, childcare and re-build. Just my 2-cents and I am actually on-scene Paula in N GA
