Just got home from such a truly rewarding day cooking, serving, visiting and ujnloading at our Civic Center where they opened up for the displaced victims of Hurricaine Katrina. With over 1800 folks here I can't fathom how many are elsewhere.
I did learn a few things though. I had never realized that most shelters serve peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a meal. This just astounds me. Our evacuees are truly grateful and lucky I suppose. Our culinary institute allowed all of their culinary students to go there and prepare dinner every night for these people. We've had to scavenge, beg, scrounge and plead but food items have all been donated to provide well balanced hot meals 3 x day, including desert and mid-morning and afternoon snacks. I'm proud to say that Lake Charles, Louisiana has such wonderful and compassionate residents. I guess I never knew how they'd react when called upon but I do now.
When I left there was a line of vehicles about 1/2 mile long waiting to unload donations from their vehicles with everything from cases of diapers to 500 boxes of crayons for the kids and at least 2000 brand new pillows and blankets.
Please, if you have a shelter in your town, go help them. Even just a few kind words of compassion is all some folks really need to make the unknown of their homes and loved ones bearable.
Hurricaine Katrina Evacuation Shelters
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