STILL NEEDING HELP - HANCOCK CO. MISSISSIPPI

Latest news from: KATRINA VOLUNTEERS - HANCOCK CO., MS

CHRISTMAS IS COMING - HELP IS NEEDED - 62 Days Until Christmas:
There will be a toy distribution at our facility in early December.
If your family is in need of assistance contact: (601) 795-9979.
We will need assistance organizing the Christmas toy give-away.
If you would like to adopt a child in Hancock County for Christmas, or an entire family - we critically need your assistance.



We are needing the following help from local volunteers:
Assistance for intakes at the office on Thursdays from 1-4pm
Assistance mowing lawns for elderly citizens on fixed incomes who can not mow the lawns themselves.
We need assistance finishing homes for elderly and disabled in Harrison, Hancock, Pearl River County, and Stone County.
Small jobs both skilled and unskilled. You can make a difference in someones life today.



We are looking for:
* To purchase a used riding lawnmower
* Donation of Propane stove
* Donation of Fridge
* Donation of Freezer
* Donation of leftover building supplies
* Looking for volunteers to visit "shut-ins" and isolated elderly residents
* Looking for volunteers to assist getting clients to appointments who can not drive or do not have a vehicle

LIVING in MOLDY WRECKAGE

Story From WLOX and Katrina Relief

 

Family living in disrepair, Katrina Relief trying to help: More than four years after hurricane Katrina the Dire... http://bit.ly/tQn1Z

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PRES. OBAMA SKIPS MISSISSIPPi

President Obama is bypassing Mississippi on his Gulf Coast visit
Hattiesburg - WDAM

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I am asking: WHY is the President skipping out on Mississippi, where the EYE of KATRINA made landfall?!

The WDAM story, which came across Twitter, is full of long-winded excuses made by Obama's team, but I say there are NO REASONS that he should not have come to Mississippi and made a tour from Pearlington to Pascagoula!!! Nothing short of that should have been No. 1 on his so-called Katrina visit to "The Gulf Coast!"

No amount of telling the President what Katrina did to Mississippi can replace the importance and profundity of actually walking through the results of Katrina!

It seems that Katrina only made New Orleans worthy of a visit from the President. And it still seems like most of the nation continues to believe that "New Orleans" and "Gulf Coast" are one and the same.

Sad indeed!

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SUICIDES and KATRINA "recovery"

All I can say is that people in general honestly believe Barbour has done a great thing in getting "aid" to the Great State of Mississippi!?? That line of crap got him re-elected along with Wicker, etc. Does anyone really think those guys fret and worry about the folks who are tied into the statistics such as the ones in the Seacoast Echo which Kathleen, of the Relief Volunteers, writes about in her blog?

Do you think they shed a tear over any of those who have turned to self medication in order to get through another day? Do you think they feel anything at all about those who have committed suicide? NO!! If they did care, honestly and truly care as their so-called "beliefs" and "Chritianity" calls them to then we would have a phenomenal health and mental health care system in this state! People would be back in their homes.

Instead, you have the likes of Wicker harping on the country's deficit (which he seems to think Obama created), Obama in general, and swearing to "get America's fiscal house back in order." Where was he in the Bush years? Where was Barbour et. al?They could care less about the recovery of the "peoples' coast."

They're all sleeping in cozy beds!

Link:
Relief Volunteers - Hancock Co., MS
Look for the article posted Oct. 5, 2009 titled " For Whom the Bell Tolls Five Years Beyond"