[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 49, Issue 76_NewOrleansRELIEF

[ALOHArose at aol.com]

I have been very happy working with Emergency Communities. Go to the website 
for their mission statement and please read what has already been 
accomplished. It is below:

http://www.emergencycommunities.org/
  
Emergency Communities is a non-profit organization that employs compassion 
and creativity to provide community-based disaster relief. Since Katrina, we 
have operated four relief sites, served over 300,000 meals and 25,000 residents 
of the Gulf. We are a United Way Partner Agency.

We currently run a community center near New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, 
Louisiana, a place still suffering from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. 
In fact, it is where Katrina first made landfall, and very little relief work 
has been done. There, in addition to serving meals, we run a free laundromat, 
an internet café and a distribution center.  We also host live music by New 
Orleans bands, supply the local “Meals on Wheels” program, and run an 
afterschool program in a local FEMA trailer park 

We also are opening a site in the Lower 9th Ward within weeks. We need a lot 
of help getting our new relief site off the ground.
The people of southern Louisiana need your help!  Come and volunteer on our 
site, help serve food, muck out moldy houses, and help rebuild!  Check out our 
needs list for in-kind donations, or make a financial contribution.  Tell a 
friend, spread the word, and get involved!

In a message dated 1/26/07 12:02:07 PM, dixielandjazz-reque
st at ml.islandnet.com writes:
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:18:46 EST
> From: Jeffmatthews111 at aol.com
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Help
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
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> 
> Hi All,
> 
> TWO TOPICS:
> 
> I was talking to a musician friend here in the UK yesterday. He has visited 
> New Orleans over 25 times and loves the jazz, the city and the people and 
> has
> a  good number of contacts there.
> 
> He was mentioning the money that had been raised around various jazz clubs 
> he attends that has been sent to New Orleans to help musicians, etc. 
> However, 
> there have been no reports back to say if the money had actually arrived 
> there
> and if it was being used to help the people it was intended for. He asked me
> to  enquire of you guys on the list to see if you have heard of these funds
> arriving  in New Orleans yet.
> 
>