Intel Donates $1 Million To American Red Cross In Support Of Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Effor

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Hi Folks,
Some good news for the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Efforts:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 1, 2005 - Intel Corporation's philanthropic arm, the Intel Foundation, announced today that it will make a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross in support of Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. The Foundation will also match dollar-for-dollar employee contributions in support of the relief effort during September.

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All the best.
Hugh

 
Red Cross Donations

GE has done the same, 1 million in addition to the $500,000 they gave earlier this year, and matching contributions from employees as well. They are housing employees and for now not only paying them but helping them with other expenses. Good to see that from some corporate companies.
 
Methinks Red Cross is a good honest, reliable vehicle through which I'll be sending something too.

Always hear good things about 'em.

I wonder if any radio stations will set up a canned food /bottled water donation drive.
 
Steve, our hospital is setting up a donation program with huge boxes in the hallways for the forseeable future. It's hard for us employees not to notice. Several other entities in town are doing the same thing. We have 1 refugee family that I know of already and the Catholic Highschool is taking in 6 kids.
 
I saw two car-wash groups and a window-wash group today in my travels. All three were at corporate offices along major thoroughfares. I heard on the radio that the employees wanted to do something and their bosses said to just go do it - so they did. Skyler's school is taking donations of school supplies to send to refugee swelled schools in TX and other areas.

I made a sign for my van today that says "Where's George?" and got quite a few puzzled looks during the course of the day. I'm glad to see people doing something, anything to help as it looks like we're on our own for the most part...at least for the first week anyway. My heart is just breaking to see this kind of suffering.
 
I love your sign idea Greg!! The schools here are doing the same thing, collecting supplies to send to those areas where there will be so many new students. Heard tonight on the news where this one woman is Champaign, Il. was expecting 15 of here relatives to arrive very soon. This is going to have far reaching effects on so many areas.
 
Great sign Greg! I bet most do understand what it means, I know I would. Thankfully the Feds are actually doing something now, better late than never. I just can't understand why they can't drop food and water into downtown, it doesn't make any sense to me. Lets hope tomorrow is better, please I can't see how it could possibly get any worse.
 
There are evacuees in every hotel/motel in town. And I heard 60 people at an old school outside town, but it isn't FEMA-approved so they have to be moved out temporarily, and hopefully the facility can get approved. Local churches are helping provide meals and supplies. RJ's company helped with meals, and they sent two linemen to LA/MS.
 
I heard on NPR that they did try to drop off food,however the copter was rushed by the crowd when it landed. They hovered ten feet from the ground and then dropped the food and water out from there.
This whole thing is too much. The Feds should have done more,and much sooner!
 
We are trying to find out about good friends from Metaire want them and their family to come live with us until they can get back home. They live right across from East Jefferson Hospital know they got flooded on the May 8 flood. Good place to see and read is WWLTV.com. Only station still broadcasting but from Baton Rouge.
 
My sign was only the most basic of questions, I have many more. There are some very, very hard questions that this administration is going to be forced to answer when this finally gets under control. Everyone I talk to is just in shock, but that will turn to anger very soon. There is absolutely no excuse that we should have seen this go on for so many days, watching elderly and babies dying in N.O. with NO HELP coming to them. They did try to drop water at the convention center, once. A drop in the bucket, so to speak, for what these people needed DAYS ago. It's not finger pointing and assigning blame, those answers are obvious. Tough questions for the man, who calls himself a christian, who has been entrusted with our safety and security. Please - write your state representatives, write your congressmen and senators - speak up!!

8 A.M. and the city is burning and still in chaos.
 
On the other side of the planet we can only watch and listen amazed. I am horrified that so little has been done, that there seems to be more emphasis on stopping looting than saving lives. Where are the supplies? Surely every bus in 1000 miles radius could be there helping with the evacuation? Surely every private small plane could be dropping bottled water and food? There should be an agency co-ordinating, phoning supermarket warehouses to donate food, phoning trucking companies, airfreight companies, boat companies(?) to donate transport, CocaCola and Pepsi should be trying to out-do each other to drop more of their product to people stranded there...The whole situation is such a shambles.

I can only contrast what happened in this country when Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, my Dad, who was a carpenter, was on a plane the next day, part of an army of volunteers from around the country flown in, on flights donated by the airlines, accomodated in schools, fed by more volunteers to help at first with the clean up and later with rebuilding...more recently the Ash Wednesday bushfires near where I live now, where town after town burnt up in the mid 1980's, people assembled in well publicized Disaster Assembly areas, fed by teams of Red Cross volunteers, clothes sent in from all over the state in a day or two, caravans (home trailers) lent and donated for temporary housing...

The contrast is so strong, I just don't believe it.

Surely it is time for the US government to call on the UN for assistance - there are so many agencies around the world willing and able to help, but someone needs to ask ,they can't come uninvited.

The Australian Government tonight announced a donation of $10 million to the US Red Cross. I am no fan of our current administration but they have done something right this time.

My thoughts are with you all, I hope all Appliancevillers are safe and well.

Chris.
 
criticism

I think the government moved as fast as they could. Everybody forgets just getting INTO the affected areas and once you get in just as difficult getting OUT. This is so massive, where do you begin? Can't be everywhere at once. With communications down, nobody knew where the worst spots were, who needed help first. Cut the government a break, they can't do everything INSTANTLY, everywhere, at once.
 
Well-

Thank you very much Australia,

on behalf of all of us here, from the bottom of my heart.

Where indeed IS George?

Here is a great opportuniy to pull our troups out of everywhere else and get them back on our soil while saving face, AND helping ourselves a bit.
 
By the way....

Yes, where is George (Soros, that is)? This is a guy that was so interested in America, that he put millions of dollars into a presidential election. Surely, the welfare of the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are just as important to him.

Now that I'm thinking about it....where are Al (Gore), John (Kerry), Whoopi. and Sean? I guess they are too busy working on the next *cause de jour* to help with hurricane relief.

Before we start pointing fingers at the feds, the crisis began with an inept local and state government. The folks in Louisiana have been warned for years about a levee that could only hold up under a category three storm. My philosophy is "plan for the worst". They should have built it to withstand a category five...after all it is a probability (now a reality). I know now that improvements will be made. I am also hoping that the local and state government are seriously looking at our seawall down in Galveston, because it could happen here as well.

Louisiana had several days to prepare for this emergency. They needed to have a mandatory evacuation as early as Friday, but chose not to do so; it was voluntary. During that time, state and local officials should have been on the *red phone* with FEMA to set up emergency shelters (like military bases) with ample food, bedding, etc. and transportation for evacuees in the event that a category five storm did hit and the levees would not contain the flood waters. They did not. All this bureaucracy did was hastily shove people like cattle into a facility which was not proven to withstand such severe weather. This was an inept improvisation, not a well-thought out plan.

As for the federal government, I think given the horrendous circumstances with 80 percent of the city under water, they have done a great job. While I myself questioned why food and water weren't being dropped to evacuees; I later rethought that. It would have created a terrible uncontrolled mob scene and many unnecessary deaths and injuries. Now that more troops have been mobilized to restore law and order, the rescue and recovery will proceed at a faster pace.

The blame game will really solve nothing. Finger pointing and criticism only serve to distract those trying to end the suffering of so many. Let's support our president's efforts.
 
Thank you Venus

I could not have said it better. Boy, there sure is a lot of finger pointing almost immediately. And the media, true to form, only was showing the WORST of the situation and nothing that was being done, or had been done, out of kindness of the human spirit.

And now we have a rapper on national television that makes statements so inflamatory that they have to be removed before being televised on the west coast. So much for, "and crown thy good with brotherhood."

I flew in this morning and on our local talk radio in Charlotte, they were interviewing over 200 evacuees that are being housed in the Charlotte Colosseum. I heard repeatedly how greatful everyone was and that a lot had been going on and how greatful all the citizens of New Orleans were for the help they were receiving. Of course you won't hear that on CNN.

Anyway, again, thanks Venus for your post.
 
I have a LOT of jeans and some other clothes that I'll never be able to wear again, going to drop them by one of the local efforts soon as I can get it all pulled together. I guess it's fortunate in a way that I hadn't gotten rid of it at a garage sale or something. One of my good friends is organizing a collection effort for baby items.

What's the best for monetary donations? Red Cross?
 
All donations are welcome!

Glenn:

I would first contribute to the Red Cross followed by the Salvation Army. Make sure you earmark your donation for *Disaster Relief*

You may want to check with the Star of Hope Mission in Houston or any local Red Cross or Salvation Army to see if they are accepting clothing donations. They were distributing clothes to evacuees. Many churches are also having clothing drives.

Just think, if everyone gave $50.00 to these reputable charities, there would be adequate funds to ensure evacuees have plenty of food, clothing, and shelter until they are able to move back into their own homes.

Venus
 

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