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Fall Bulletin 2005
Vol. 21, No.3 |
Introduction
Central American Food Security Initiative (CAFSI)
Garden-based Agriculture for Toledo’s Environment (GATE) Program, Belize
Katrina Hurricane Relief Effort
Kids to the Country
KATRINA RELIEF
Though Plenty is primarily a “development” agency, our Board and staff and network of volunteers have years of disaster relief experience beginning with tornadoes in the US, the Guatemala earthquake of 1976, hurricanes in Central America and the tsunami of last December. From our headquarters on the Farm in southern Tennessee it felt like Katrina had battered our close neighbors. We had to respond. Plenty was fortunate to get into an immediate hurricane relief alliance with the Veterans For Peace. The VFP had already set up a shelter and distribution center when we arrived.
In the above photo supplies are being unloaded from the Plenty bus at the VFP distribution center and shelter in Covington, LA. The VFP bus, “The White Rose,” is in front of the Plenty bus.
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Plenty volunteer, Ralph McAtee leads the morning meeting at the Veterans For Peace Volunteer Camp outside Covington, LA. Ralph is a Paramedic Supervisor with the Nashville Fire Department and served with the Plenty Ambulance Service in the South Bronx in the early 1980s.
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Plenty volunteer and Registered Nurse, Elaine Langley checks Terry Miller's blood pressure in New Orleans. Monica Hampton (standing) is a film producer but has been working as a volunteer at the VFP camp.(photo by Paul Gaskin)
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Jeffrey, Neal, and Joel putting plastic on Terry Miller's life long home in New Orleans. (photo by Paul Gaskin)
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Plenty volunteer Neal Bloomfield, right, talks with Mike, a member of the Houma community in Raceland, Louisiana. (Photo by Paul Gaskin)
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Repairing the United Houma Nation Tribal Office Building in Golden Meadow, LA. (Photo by Jeff Clark)
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Volunteers Katherine West, Kara French, Ralph McAtee, Gary Maclaughlin, Lenore Norrgard and Paul Gaskin.
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Letter on a backpack sent down from Michigan
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To donate to Plenty's hurricane relief efforts, please visit our donation page or click button:
You may also send a check to Plenty, Box 394, Summertown, TN 38483
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