[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Katrina

[Rebecca Gutierrez]

Thank you for this very appropriate response.  It's
exactly what I was thinking.  Volunteering is not
something you do for yourself and is generally a
thankless job.  You do it without expecting anything
in return.  The rest of the original message was just
pure ignorant racism!

Rebecca


THANK YOU to the hundreds of heart-filled volunteers
who come back each day regardless of the chaos.  P.S. 
I don't know what world regards living in close
quarters with thousands of people "heaven"

--- Christian L <chl0807 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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