[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Katrina

[Christian L]

Thank you Eileen,
 
If anybody is volunteering for the following two reasons, then please don't.
 
> A: I wanted to help people to get a warm fuzzy.
> B: Curiosity.
 
Please volunteer because you truly want to help someone else, not because you want to help yourself. It's nice to get a "thank you" but if you will be unhappy with your volunteer work unless someone is showing their gratitude then you may want to stay at home. 
 
Regarding some of the behavior described below, I agree it is not what you would like to see. But unless someone has been through the same experience that many of the evacuees have been through, I would hesitate to pass any judgement and negative comment on their behavior. I don't think any of us can really imagine the conditions at the Superdome that people had to endure for many days regardless of what you have heard or seen on the news. You have not seen a tenth of what some of the evacuees have been through, let alone the loss of everything they own.
 
Christian
 

Eileen M Joyce-Hankins <eileenjoycehankins at gmail.com> wrote:

I helped at the public computers last week (Tues - Thurs) and I can
tell you that in the aftermath of losing almost everything they had,
being shuttled to a city they didn't know, and being separated from
family who were evacuated to different locations every single person I
helped thanked me for the little I could for them. There wasn't a
single evacuee who acted as if they were due the help, some were even
too humble to ask for help.

If there were any grumblings it was about the delay in FEMA's arrival
or not knowing where their families were. Most were happy to have on
clean, dry clothing, to be able to take a shower, and, most
importantly, to be alive.

Eileen

On 9/15/05, Lillian Martinez 
wrote:
> 
> <Hear-say comment deleted>
> 
> Lillian Simmons
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:24:21 AM CDT
> From: libertyman50 at wmconnect.com
 
> 
> Long read, I know but please do read!!!
> 
> What the news does not show...
> 
> Thought I might inform the few friends I have on my recent traumatic
> experience. I am going to tell it straight, blunt, raw, and I don't give a
> damn.
> 
>  ...

		
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