DONATE
Red Cross
1-800-435-7669 English
1-800-257-7575 Spanish
1-713-526-8300
1-281-JOIN-NOW
or Red Cross Donation hosted by
Amazon.com
America's Second Harvest
1-800-344-8070
Habitat For Humanity
USA Freedom Corps
To donate housing, services, construction equipment, transportation, food and/or personal items.
Operation Share Your Home
Here is a national toll-free number for individuals who want to open their homes to Katrina victims:
1-888-827-2525
DONATE AND/OR VOLUNTEER
Adventist Community Services
Catholic Charities USA
Christian Disaster Response
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
Church World Service
Houston Food Bank
Needs volunteers. Needs donations of paper goods, cleaning supplies, bottled water, peanut butter, heat-and-eat foods, single-serving foods and snacks that don't require refrigeration, and cash.
1-713-223-3700
Convoy of Hope
Lutheran Disaster Response
1-800-638-3522)
Mennonite Disaster Service
1-800-859-2210
Nazarene Disaster Response
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Salvation Army
Southern Baptist Convention - Disaster Relief
United Methodist Committee on Relief
USA Freedom Corps
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Missing and Found Children
Red Cross's Locate People List
For those who do not have Internet access to www.redcross.org, please call 1-877-LOVED-1S (1-877-568-3317), a toll-free hot line for finding family members.
Large database of missing and sought people.
Katrina List Network
CNN Hurricane Katrina Safe List
National Next Of Kin Registry
WWLTV Searching For
WWLTV I'm OK
NOLA Missing Persons
South Mississippi: Sun Herald Message Board
Gulf Coast News Katrina Survivor- Connector List
Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN)
Relays information into, and out of disaster affected areas currently without conventional communications.
An email site to request information on family you cannot make contact with in the disaster areas. This website is being flooded with requests so you may need to refresh the page quite a few times to access and fill out the form.
Salvation Army SATERN email link
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FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
FEMA
Emergency Katrina Housing Programs (USDA)
Housing Hot Line: 1-800-414-1226.
Toll-free number for USDA housing loan borrowers, USDA rental housing residents and other displaced persons.
EMERGENCY HOUSING
Hurricane Housing
Red Cross Local Chapter Finder
Emergency Katrina Housing Programs (HUD)
Housing Hot Line: 1-866-641-8102
Toll-free number for Section 8 voucher holders and public housing residents:
1-800-955-2232.
Emergency Katrina Housing Programs (USDA)
Housing Hot Line: 1-800-414-1226.
Toll-free number for USDA housing loan borrowers, USDA rental housing residents and other displaced persons.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
U.S. Department of Labor
VITAL DOCUMENTS
Replacing Your Vital Documents
MAIL
U. S. Postal Service Updates
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Free, disaster-related legal assistance is being provided by Mississippi volunteer attorneys for low-income individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina.
The service, coordinated through volunteers from the Mississippi Young Lawyers Division of the Mississippi Bar Association and the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is available by calling the Disaster Legal Service hotline at 1-866-255-4495.
DISCUSSION FORUMS
CrisisBoard.org
Katrina Convoy of Hope
NOLA (New Orleans, Louisianna) Volunteer Forum
NOLA (New Orleans, Louisianna) Animal Chat Forum
CRAIG'S LIST
New Orleans LA
Baton Rouge LA
Houston TX
Jackson MS
Mobile AL
Montgomery
Shreveport LA
Pensacola FL
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