As the damage, lives, and missing are calculated the rest of the
victims of Hurricane Katrina are asking what can they do to help
and how can they be helped in their situation of distress. The
American Red Cross is helping as much as they can and collecting
funds to increase their capability to help the victims.
Federal help has been implemented, as well, to help the victims
and their families get back on their feet. FEMA (Federal
Emergency Management Agency) is now helping in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, and southern Florida. With this extra help
many of the needed supplies for the people of the area will be
supplied, as well as the needed funds to prepare to rebuild.
Many individuals have rallied as well to help those in need,
both with missing people and fixing damages. Searches are being
conducted all across Louisiana and Mississippi to find missing
people in the rubble and destruction that was left behind
Katrina's path.
Hopefully with all the help that the people of these states are
receiving they will quickly be able to get back to their
everyday lives. But for now Hurricane Katrina victims still need
help in lots of ways and are asking where to go for help and
have found a group of local websites such as www.mylouisiana.us
and www.mymississippi.us to be of great help to look for
information at the state level. At a more local level they have
found www.myneworleansla.us and www.myjacksonms.us. These sites
provide hope and information for these devastated people. The
forums created by the webmasters provide information for the
victims in an organized manner. As well as a way to ask
questions about what is being done in their local areas in the
way of rebuilding and finding lost loved ones. And in a smaller,
but still important aspect, giving the victims a place to tell
their stories as a way of helping them cope with their losses
and move on with their lives.
There are several ways to help including donating to the Red
Cross fund at www.redcross.org and also helping more directly by
volunteering time to help. Another way to help these people
directly if you don't have a lot of time you can visit the My
United States Network sites and give these people hope and
information in the forums.
About the author:
Jeff O'Reilly is a nationally syndicated author who reports for
the My United States Network.
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