Dear Friends,
We are grateful to all of you who have already contacted us with your concern for the group and our animals. Some of you who were here to help us after Katrina have already offered to return if that should become necessary. We pray it does not come to that.
Like everyone in the Gulf Coast, we are
carefully monitoring the projected path of Hurricane Gustav, and we are
actively making needed preparations for our animals at the former Camp Katrina.
Our staff members and some other rescuers are relocating from the city
to our Tylertown site as we speak, and some of our volunteer chapters
in Louisiana are also busily making evacuation arrangements. Help with the cost of these preparations is urgently needed.
At this time, as we monitor the storm's progress and prepare, our most urgent need is for monetary contributions! We
have unanticipated expenses for supplies, provisions, etc., and we
urgently need a reserve of cash on hand to deal with emergencies and
operations after the storm makes landfall. Of course, our primary
local donor base is in the process of evacuating, so we are unlikely to
be able to rely on them for assistance for some time.
If you can make a donation online, we would greatly appreciate it.
If you would prefer to send a check, please note that no one may be
able to pick up and process mail sent to New Orleans for some time. If
you would like to send a donation by mail, until further notice, it
would be best directly to send it to our former Board member, Linda
Dell at her Akron, OH address. Please send to:
Humane Society of Louisiana c/o Linda Dell 45 S. Balch Street Akron, OH 44302
Ms.
Dell has agreed to immediately deposit any contributions into our bank
account, so that we will be able to access the funds.
We
will update our site to the best of our ability with updates as we get
them. It is difficult to believe--just as we were planning activities
and fundraisers and activities in New Orleans to mark the third
anniversary of Katrina, we are now facing another potential disaster.
We can be contacted at info@humanela.org or 1-888-6 HUMANE. We hope you will understand if we are unable to get back with you in a timely manner.
Thank
you for your concern, and if you are in the process of evacuating, we
wish you, your family and your animal companions the very best.
Take
care!
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