Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have told me privately that the de-watering, repairs, and cleanup in New Orleans alone will take 8 to 10 months.  The major problem is the need to enter, inspect, and clean up EVERY SINGLE DWELLING UNIT in the flooded area.  Some of these will contain decomposing human and animal bodies, rotted food, bedding, and other organic waste.  A large part of the cleanup will be done by volunteers and returning residents.  They need supplies.

 

The United Methodist Committee on Relief maintains warehouses at strategic locations around the United States.  One of these is in Louisiana, near the current devastation.  Since the gale winds stopped blowing, the food, water, medical supplies, blanket, and other essential items stored there have been flowing into the Gulf Coast area.  The warehouse is getting bare.

 

If you want to contribute complete health kits and/or flood buckets, collect the items somewhere, notify me of the location, and I will have them picked up and moved to the local depot for shipment to Louisiana.

 

Tom Baines

(630) 561-6462 or (405) 833-6075

t.baines@att.net
UMC's

Response to

Hurricane Katrina

 

Contribute to

 

UMCOR

 

(United Methodist Committee on Relief)

 

through

Health Kits

And

Flood buckets

 

Thank you for helping those affected by Hurricane Katrina. These supplies enable people to begin the overwhelming job of cleaning up, whether it be from the hurricane or flooding.

 

Deliver completed kits to the nearest United Methodist Church. The church will collect the kits, box them up, load them on a truck with donated flood buckets, then take them to the UMCOR Sager‑Brown Depot in Baldwin, Louisiana.

 

We invite you, your Sunday school classes, groups, committees and families to share in this mission project.

 

UMCOR helps connect the people to people in need by shipping donated supplies around the world. For more information on UMCOR, see the back page of this booklet.

 

Health Kit Contents:

 

Health kits provide basic necessities to people who have been forced to leave their homes because of human conflict or natural disaster. Health kits are also used as learning tools in personal hygiene, literacy, nutrition and cooking classes. When people gain the knowledge and materials to maintain personal hygiene, their overall health improves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place these items inside a sealed one‑gallon plastic bag.

 

Value: $12 per kit.

 

Kit Packing and Shipping Instructions:

 

Please follow the directions exactly. All emergency kits have been carefully planned to make them as usable as possible in the greatest number of situations.

 

1.      Please note that all items included in kits must be NEW!

2.      Please complete the packing list.

3.      Because of strict rules imposed by international communities regarding product entry into their countries, it is important

         that kits contain only the items requested and nothing more.  Do not include any personal notes, money or additional mate­

         rials. These things must be painstakingly removed and will impede the progress of the shipment.

 

 

Flood Bucket Contents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put all items in the plastic bucket and seal lid.

 

Please ensure that all cleansing agents are liquids (not powder) and in plastic bottles.

 

Value: $45 per bucket.

 

 

Flood Bucket Packing Instructions:

 

Pleasefollow the directions exactly. All emergency kits have been carefully planned to make them as usable as possible in the greatest number of situations.

 

1.   Please note that all items included in kits must be NEW!

 

2.   Please complete the packing list.

 

3.   If the requested size item is not available, select the next smaller available size. If an item is not available in the requested or smaller size, affix a masking tape label on the outside of the bucket saying, "This bucket contains no [missing item(s).”

 

4.   It is important that kits contain only the items requested and nothing more. Do not include any personal notes, money or additional materials. Extra gifts, though given with the best of intentions, render a kit unusable and must be removed.

 

5.    *Special requirements:

 

•     Please ensure that all cleansing agents are liquids (not powder) and in plastic bottles.

 

•     If flammable items or aerosols are included, put an ORM‑D mark on the outside of any buckets containing these items. Get it at http)://gbgm‑umc.org/umcor/print/kits/orm‑d.cfm or contact Susan Hunt at the church (721‑4141).

 

Thank you for your donations. You are helping to make a difference in people's lives.

 

About UMCOR:

 

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is the not‑for‑profit humanitarian agency of The United Methodist Church. Since 1940 UMCOR's mission‑‑ providing relief in disaster areas, aiding refugees and confronting the challenge of world hunger and poverty‑‑ has helped to heal the hurts of humanity in nearly 100 countries. UMCOR maintains a corps of trained disaster response specialists for quick reinforcement of national efforts and keeps a supply of relief materials in warehouses for dispatch when and where required. It also trains disaster response specialists in their own countries as part of a global ministry by a global church and works in partnership with other international agencies.

 

You can always give with confidence to the United Methodist Committee on Relief. UMCOR follows the professional accounting and auditing regulations of The United Methodist Church. It is exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and qualifies for the maximum charitable contribution deduction by donors.

 

When you give to the United Methodist Committee on Relief you can be sure that your money will go where you want it to go. One hundred percent of your tax deductible gifts go to the emergency or project that you designate.

 

For more information, visit this website:

 

http://gbgm‑ume.org/umcor/