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September 11, 2006
Volunteer project: Helping out Gentilly Girl
I would like to mobilize the volunteer spirit of the Rising Tide to help out one of our own. Morwen Madrigal, a.k.a Gentilly Girl, has found that she can't gut her house by herself, and the waiting list to get help from places like ACORN is over four months long. With the looming city deadline for gutting being a moving target, this is rather nerve-wracking for her as it is for everyone else in her situation.
By coordinating through the ThinkNOLA Wiki and pulling a crew together, I think we could make a big dent in the job in one or two days.
Here's what I want y'all to do. Sign up on the wiki if you can help out, and put down your date preferences. Then take a look at the list of equipment needed and tell us what you can loan or donate from that list. If you can donate any cash to the cause, please put that down as well.
Even if you can't be there on gutting day, let us know if you can loan us some of the rarer equipment like wheelbarrows or respirators.
The dates I'm proposing are any/all of:
* Sunday, September 17
* Saturday, September 23
* Sunday, September 24
We'll work on any of those days when we can get at least 3 or 4 volunteers. (I left Saturday the 16th off since that's the day of the Big Easy Rollergirls bout so I know everybody has a conflict that day.)
We won't be doing a lot of actual demolition, we'll mostly be moving furniture and appliances (yes, fridges...more than one of them) and belongings. Morwen will be providing lunch.
Thanks to Adrastos for planting the idea.
Please volunteer your time or your tools on the ThinkNOLA wiki:
http://thinknola.com/wiki/Post_Rising_Tide.
And please spread the word through the blogs.
Thanks!
Posted by ray at September 11, 2006 6:54 AM | Permalink
Categories: [blogging | katrina | new orleans ]
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Hey, I passed this on to Shiek from AWK, he said contact him, they can definatly help out!
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Posted by: Lisa at September 11, 2006 1:50 PM
ray im not savey with these internets. i tried the wiki thing but couldnt figure out where to post my response. it could be the fact that im running a six year old computer.
i would like to help on either sunday. i have a wheelbarrow and a chainsaw plus some rusty katrina yard tools that still work. please email me or post a reponse here and let me know when and where to show up.
as long as i can show up with my little hurricane radio and listen to da saints.
Posted by: rick at September 13, 2006 2:08 AM
Thanks Rick. I put you down on the wiki, and I'll send out an email Friday with the time and location.
Posted by: Ray at September 13, 2006 10:54 AM
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