Post by karen on Oct 24, 2005 8:57:10 GMT -5
Reply to: cvrelief@hotmail.com
Date: 2005-10-20, 11:59AM CDT
Hurricane Recovery
Multiply Your Efforts
“If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.” – Isaiah 58:10
Tens of thousands of homes were flooded on the gulf coast. Many were uninsured and have minor structural damage but are currently uninhabitable because of mold. These houses need to be cleaned out to the studs, dried, and rebuilt to make them habitable. Surveys of flooded neighborhoods indicate 10-40% of the houses are not cleaned out as of mid-October. At some point, the clean-out work will transition to rebuilding.
Lutheran Disaster Response has a multi-year commitment in the Gulf area to help with the clean-out and rebuilding effort. Thousands, possibly tens of thousands, are interested in volunteering to help with this process.
Most volunteers are short-term, working a long weekend or a week. To recruit a greater number of these short-term volunteers, and effectively put them to work, long-term volunteers are needed. We are asking long-term volunteers to commit for four weeks. If you can stay longer, that is even better.
Here are the critical work areas that need long-term volunteers:
- Crew Recruitment (publicize our need for work crews; answer questions from interested crews; determine dates, number of people, and skills of work crews; arrange housing; enter data).
- Disaster Victim Communication (publicize our volunteer services; talk to clients by phone and in person, determine their needs; enter data).
- Dispatch Work Crews (assign work locations to crew managers).
- Requirements for the above positions: Must be proficient in Word, Excel, email, and internet. A big plus but not required – bring your laptop with Word, Excel, and WI-FI and bring your cell phone with the maximum anytime minutes.
- Equipment Management (distribute, store, maintain, and inventory work crew equipment).
- Work Crew Management. Must have vehicle and construction knowledge (determine if a house is salvageable, estimate labor hours and equipment to gut a flooded home; estimate labor hours and material to repair gutted or damaged homes; orient, train, and manage volunteer work crews).
- Reconstruction Manager. Must have vehicle, construction knowledge, and commit to three months. (manage the functions described above, find replacement reconstruction manager).
Food, shelter (on cots in tent cities with showers), and opportunities to help those in need, are provided to all volunteers. If you have a mobile home, we have locations to park them without hook-ups. There are also sites that may be available with hookups.
Interested? Contact:
Roger Ratcliff, cell 832-668-6135 or 303-246-0328, roger_ratcliff@hotmail.com;
Jim Antonakos, cell 410-967-5517, jantonakos@comcast.net
Date: 2005-10-20, 11:59AM CDT
Hurricane Recovery
Multiply Your Efforts
“If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.” – Isaiah 58:10
Tens of thousands of homes were flooded on the gulf coast. Many were uninsured and have minor structural damage but are currently uninhabitable because of mold. These houses need to be cleaned out to the studs, dried, and rebuilt to make them habitable. Surveys of flooded neighborhoods indicate 10-40% of the houses are not cleaned out as of mid-October. At some point, the clean-out work will transition to rebuilding.
Lutheran Disaster Response has a multi-year commitment in the Gulf area to help with the clean-out and rebuilding effort. Thousands, possibly tens of thousands, are interested in volunteering to help with this process.
Most volunteers are short-term, working a long weekend or a week. To recruit a greater number of these short-term volunteers, and effectively put them to work, long-term volunteers are needed. We are asking long-term volunteers to commit for four weeks. If you can stay longer, that is even better.
Here are the critical work areas that need long-term volunteers:
- Crew Recruitment (publicize our need for work crews; answer questions from interested crews; determine dates, number of people, and skills of work crews; arrange housing; enter data).
- Disaster Victim Communication (publicize our volunteer services; talk to clients by phone and in person, determine their needs; enter data).
- Dispatch Work Crews (assign work locations to crew managers).
- Requirements for the above positions: Must be proficient in Word, Excel, email, and internet. A big plus but not required – bring your laptop with Word, Excel, and WI-FI and bring your cell phone with the maximum anytime minutes.
- Equipment Management (distribute, store, maintain, and inventory work crew equipment).
- Work Crew Management. Must have vehicle and construction knowledge (determine if a house is salvageable, estimate labor hours and equipment to gut a flooded home; estimate labor hours and material to repair gutted or damaged homes; orient, train, and manage volunteer work crews).
- Reconstruction Manager. Must have vehicle, construction knowledge, and commit to three months. (manage the functions described above, find replacement reconstruction manager).
Food, shelter (on cots in tent cities with showers), and opportunities to help those in need, are provided to all volunteers. If you have a mobile home, we have locations to park them without hook-ups. There are also sites that may be available with hookups.
Interested? Contact:
Roger Ratcliff, cell 832-668-6135 or 303-246-0328, roger_ratcliff@hotmail.com;
Jim Antonakos, cell 410-967-5517, jantonakos@comcast.net