I'm pasting an email from a friend of mine to highlight once again the complete incompetence of the Louisiana state officials. I'm sure you can completely understand his utter frustration. If you know anyone in the media that would be interested in this story, please pass it along and have them contact Gary Brown through the website listed below. Here is the email:
I and a few friends have founded an organization Share Your Home, a 501 c 3 non profit www.shareyourhome.org, and we are placing hurricane victims who have lost their homes in homes across the country. The people opening their homes have been very generous. In some cases, houses have been donated, cell phones, cars etc. There are lots of opportunities for these victims.
We have partnered with the LSU Architectural school and they have agreed to give some course credit to students willing to help us with our effort. We have trained these 200+ students to go out into shelters and collect the information needed to place these victims into homes. There is only one problem, any shelter run by the Red Cross or the State of Louisiana will not allow us to enter to gather this information.
We currently have 25,000 homes offered. If you figure only 4 person per family, that’s 100,000 people we could potentially place around the country in loving homes and communities that will assist with medical needs, finding jobs and place the children in schools. Why are we being blocked?
Is the Red Cross raising too much money? And your guess is as good as mine as why the state wouldn’t want us to help even though the Governor’s office and Red Cross refer people and resources to us that they didn’t know what to do with, including 18 wheelers of supplies, airplanes (as big as dc-9’s, and an entire retired air force wing). We even had the Red Cross (Missouri) call us and want to send an 18 wheeler full of goods to us because they couldn’t get their OWN organization to call them back.
I don’t know what is going on down here, but we need to remember people are suffering and if ANYONE can help who is the Red Cross or the State Government to refuse it on behalf of the victims.
I really do hope that this is just simply incompetence and not something being purposefully done for any number of reasons, none of which are appropriate.
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Just wanted to let you know the program The Road to Reconstruction, empowering victims of Hurricane Katrina to reconstruct their lives on a path to independence, blocked also. That's on a local level. So, it seems to be happening everywhere. I was told my program "was not needed because the victims of Hurricane Katrina couldn't benefit from the program." I don't understand why we underestimate and judge. Didn't know that was our job, I was always taught that was God's job - oh wait they probably took that lesson out of the schools too.
Michelle
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