Our school is so small only 100 kids in it but we had a toy/ book sale. All new/used toys and books were donated and we had a day were kids and other families bought theses things and that saturday we had a town yard sale filled with donated goods we the school did however made over $3,000. To donate to the huricane reilleve fund. WOW we were so happy!!!!!!! keep given
I'm from Fond du Lac, WI and our district is looking at helping. Some of the head people here are having a meeting next week on what to do. I have been giving them information from this message board. Which has been very helpful. They are thinking of adopting a town, so I need your help to find some town that needs our help. I'm not from there so I don't what towns are there. We have about 50,000 people living here and have some very big companies. Any ideas would be helpful. I ( a PTO President)have been invited to go to this meeting. Because of what I have learned from you on this board. Think you for your help, please keep it coming. Everyone on this message board is relying on the people down there to give us information.
My prays go out to everyone.
Our district's website has announcements regarding what certain schools are doing to help so if what you can give doesn't fit with one school, it might be what another one needs.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
That being said, let's get back to the business at order. Helping others. [/QB][/QUOTE]
DITTO!
I have called my local United Way to see if any of the evacuees would like to attend church on Sunday. There is a drive going on right now at one of our local malls. They are taking items for them. I know what they really need is school supplies. I always stock up before school starts, so I plan on going down there after my baby's nap and giving them what I have left.
For those of you who do not live in an area that is prone to hurricanes--please understand that they receive 3 or 4 hurricane alerts every single year. So, decade after decade after decade, year after year after year, these people receive these warnings. I guess perhaps many people believed this warning was just like all the other dozens of warnings they had gotten over the decades when little or nothing happened. I'm not really defending their decision to stay, I'm just trying to shed some light on the mindset.
Yep, can agree with this statement. Lived in Florida all my life (40+) and have never left. After last year, oh, yes in a heartbeat. But, I'm older and wiser now, but also know how all the ones feel that chose to stay. There's a lot of reasons why they did. Please do not judge them.
That being said, let's get back to the business at order. Helping others.
Did you ever hear the one about opinions being like buttholes, everybody has one??? LOL
I can't believe how heated this whole situation has become. I say save the finger pointing until after you deal with rescue and burial. Besides, if you point your finger, you have 3 more pointing back at you.
A lot of agencies and officials dropped the ball, it is no ONE persons or agencies fault. It's a terrible tragedy and we will learn a very valuable lesson from it.
"Do it once, shame on you, do it twice, shame on me."
