Clicking on the banner above will take you directly to the Red Cross Donation page, my choice for today's blogburst for Hurricane Katrina Relief. Today, bloggers from all over the nation and in many other countries are putting their efforts into raising money for disaster relief and emergency services. Thousands of people are homeless, hungry and dehydrated. Many have nothing left.
Families and homes have been literally torn apart. Businesses that have been nurtured for decades are shattered.
It is difficult to even imagine what the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are experiencing. This is something that they will be dealing with for months, and something that will have lasting effects for years. Please give anything that you can. No donation is too small to help.
During times of crisis and disaster, as in the South Asia tsunami earlier this year, America has offered and delivered help and rescue to literally millions around the world. There isn't a rescuer for us to rely on. We must do this on our own, for our own.
If the Red Cross is not your choice, Glenn Reynolds has a growing list of resourced and other blogger picks. I have compiled a list of some not-so obvious picks. Here are some of them from yesterday's post:
Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA) has set up a hurricane relief fund here.
NVOAD has a Disaster News Network page with links and news.
Church World Service has a donation page up.
For you misplaced Anglicans, there is Episcopal Relief & Development.
WritersCafe.net (for the Buddhist poets in the audience)has a donation page for monies to be sent to Americares Domestic Relief Fund.
America's Second Harvest also has a donation page.
Lutheran World Relief is here.
United Jewish Charities has their page here.
Islamic Circle of North America is here.
For us Godless heathens, I suppose there's Morgan Freeman's charity auction at Charity Folks, especially since they're listing some big ticket items. Maybe the auction winners will donate the prizes, too.
Also check out Hugh Hewitt Charles Johnson and the guy that has thrown his talents behind the big blog aggregator, N.Z. Bear. The TTLB topic page is here. Check in throughout the day.
Just letting you know that ConservativeDemocratNews is up and running once more.
Posted by: Progressive | September 01, 2005 at 11:58 AM
Kudos on your efforts to bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. There is another way bloggers and other thoughtful people can help:
I have opened forums at www.DisasterReliefIdeas.org for the discussion of ideas to aid disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am not soliciting donations, only ideas. Experts in aspects of disaster relief (housing, healthcare, rebuilding, etc.) are also able to rate these ideas, giving us a means of identifying the most promising ones, which will be shared with disaster relief professionals and persons in authority. Please help our society by contributing your ideas, especially if you are unable to contribute financially to relief efforts.
Posted by: Logan | September 02, 2005 at 02:05 PM
Some good came of Katrina (inspired me to help the best I can VIA current internet media technologies with future crisises): I have made a customized search engine that links only to crisis situation type websites (like relief aide, evacuation planning, crisis management, and others relating to disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters and man-made war), see http://www.CrisisSearch.com ... This niche portal was made after the Katrina devastation and hopefully it will assist humans in/during the next disaster...
Posted by: Search Guy | September 15, 2005 at 05:41 PM