Cally Abdulrazak, Teresa Howe, Mike Collins and I, will be going to Turkey Creek this Sunday to do work. Lanier was there last week and spent time cutting thru county and state-level red tape so that certain homes can be at least gutted in this neighborhood. Now she's in San Antonio with our youth group. She'll meet us at Turkey Creek some time on Sunday. We will work four full days and then on Wed. have the opportunity to meet with Pearl River Valley Foundation, which runs after-school programs and summer camp for 700 children. Hundreds are on the waiting list for these programs. We hope to meet Joe Dawsey, director of the health centers of the Gulf Coast. Mike and I plan to meet with Mark Newburg on Saturday, Mar. 3. Mark is a Belmont High school grad, Tulane law school grad, and now chief of staff to New Orleans city council president, Thomas Oliver.
Already we've had amazing support and information from Bridge to Biloxi, the Concord, Mass.-based group that builds homes through Handson.net and from Jinnie Trabulsi, our UU liaison there. Rich Pasley from B2B sent us a photo of the huts where we'll be staying. Lanier has reported in on conditions. Her good friend Amelie (originally of Alabama) is organizing a northeast-based group of volunteers, and plans to accelerate fundraising for the area. We, and anyone else who is interested, can be part of this effort.
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