How many days....
I just came off 12 hours straight of interviewing and assisting people who fled the hurricane-affected areas, so if I ramble, forgive me. There are no words to describe the size and emotional impact each family has to face. It seems insurmountable.. but its not. It's going to take time, patience, donations and volunteers. And while I’m on it.. its going to take corporate America to allow their people time off to assist.
The news reports today (09/03/05) that 42,000 people who had found temporary shelter inside of New Orleans (because they COULD NOT evacuate) have now been moved from the city. Katrina’s path, impacted tens and hundreds of thousands of people who fled effected areas to friends and family BEFORE this. How many? How many lost their homes and will need assistance. WE don’t know yet. How many are still there? WE don’t know yet. But if anyone has census figures it’ll give you a picture.. I look forward to your response.
Let me paint a VERY small picture. We had 100 families show up TODAY in our small district in Georgia. IF it takes an average of 60 minutes to interview face to face, each family (average mind you) to determine what their immediate needs are for food, shelter and clothing. 100 families x 1 hr each is 100 hrs. How do you do it in 12 hrs? You would need 8 teams. Today, we had five.
This example was for 100 families. Now lets bring it into focus. How many evacuated the affected areas? 200,000 or more? Just for a comparison, lets just look at the 42,000 reported that were moved out of the Convention Center and Superdome in the last two days. If we had 100 2-man teams to arrange to meet each family face to face , and we worked 12 hr days, with no pauses or break for meals, it would take 35 days to meet each family face to face. That’s just the families who were moved from the Superdome and Convention center. Not the ones who left before.
They need to eat. In order to assist 200,000 people within three days we would need over 8,300 volunteers.
Step up to the plate… Help US America http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/?source=CNN&cmpgn=CRS
The news reports today (09/03/05) that 42,000 people who had found temporary shelter inside of New Orleans (because they COULD NOT evacuate) have now been moved from the city. Katrina’s path, impacted tens and hundreds of thousands of people who fled effected areas to friends and family BEFORE this. How many? How many lost their homes and will need assistance. WE don’t know yet. How many are still there? WE don’t know yet. But if anyone has census figures it’ll give you a picture.. I look forward to your response.
Let me paint a VERY small picture. We had 100 families show up TODAY in our small district in Georgia. IF it takes an average of 60 minutes to interview face to face, each family (average mind you) to determine what their immediate needs are for food, shelter and clothing. 100 families x 1 hr each is 100 hrs. How do you do it in 12 hrs? You would need 8 teams. Today, we had five.
This example was for 100 families. Now lets bring it into focus. How many evacuated the affected areas? 200,000 or more? Just for a comparison, lets just look at the 42,000 reported that were moved out of the Convention Center and Superdome in the last two days. If we had 100 2-man teams to arrange to meet each family face to face , and we worked 12 hr days, with no pauses or break for meals, it would take 35 days to meet each family face to face. That’s just the families who were moved from the Superdome and Convention center. Not the ones who left before.
They need to eat. In order to assist 200,000 people within three days we would need over 8,300 volunteers.
Step up to the plate… Help US America http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/?source=CNN&cmpgn=CRS
posted by A New Light at 11:34 PM
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