Another update from my friend, Joan, who is in Mississippi helping with Katrina cleanup.
QUICK update. AP Reporter (Vicki) and tv camera men came by camp earlier today and I talked with her and directed her to others. Thenthen went out to one of our work sites (we have 5 teams now) and shot some footage...-----I also went with the two leads this morning to meet with Reverend Banks down
the road at the Baptist church. We drove around to meet with families and
do house assessments to see what / if we could do repairs. I think it was
good foe me to go because the 3 men were all business on the carpentry stuff
while I tried to provide psycho/social support -- giving hugs and asking
people if they needed clothing or health kits, or if that had family that
needed diapers etc. I'm gonna cry if I write this and I'm also trying to be
quick b/c there is just so much to do. You know it's bad when a grown man
will take the time after kindly asking him in private away from the other
men if he needs anything and he does finally say he can use some clothes
because he doesn't have anything more than what he's wearing that is soaked
through with sweat. And so I've got his sizes and went through the trailer
and tried to find the best I could for him. And the 2 little boys who
looked like twins but were actually a year apart...I'm bringing them a
football, soccer ball and 2 new cool backbacks with fun things including
some twizzlers and famous amos choc chip cookies I smuggled in! :). Later so
I can get these things to the families...
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