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As part of the bloggers' support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, I have designated
Catholic Charities as the group for whom I am blegging.
While local agencies along the Gulf Coast anticipate that they will be provide some type of emergency assistance in their communities, Catholic Charities' niche in disaster relief is to provide long-term recovery work. In fact, Catholic Charities agencies in Florida are still providing services to help people recover from last year's devastating hurricanes.
Based on past disasters, possible long-term services that Catholic Charities may provide include temporary and permanent housing, direct assistance beyond food and water to get people back into their homes, job placement counseling, and medical and prescription drug assistance.We can all see that there will be significant long term recovery work to be done in the wake of Katrina. Note that although the group is called "Catholic" Charities, their aid is dispensed without regard to the religion of the recipient.
As always, when I ask you to pull out your wallet, I've done so first, with some of that "mad blog money" that our buddy TC the Leather Penguin likes to talk about. Amazing how I can rack up mad blog money without any ads, eh?
But seriously, give what you can afford, even if it's only a couple bucks. This is an opportunity to show how our country pulls together in time of need.
Here's a link to Instapundit's
post on this topic.
Thank you!
