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Kathyp:
Not everyone wants to donate to Red Cross (iddee, looking at you  :grin:).  There are some others that I have worked with or belong to and can recommend.

 Team Rubicon does a lot of physical stuff like mucking out, running heavy equipment, cutting trees, etc. A lot of former military.

Samaritans Purse does feeding, has medical facilities, and does a lot of counseling.  Not sure if they do shelters.

Salvation Army feeds, shelters some, does counseling, and supplies necessities. 

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief runs the cooking kitchens that Red Cross uses to feed.

If you want to donate to Red Cross, they do feeding, sheltering, counseling, and run the feeding trucks into the disaster areas so that people don't have to come to them.  Salvation Army runs truck feeding too.

In the middle of that is FEMA getting under foot, but that's another story  :grin:

Money is the best thing to send.  It can be used to get exactly what is needed and goes back into the local community.  Clothing and other stuff requires storage and sorting, and most of the time is more a problem than a help.

Ben Framed:
Thanks Kathy.

iddee:
Salvation Army and Samaritan's purse are my favorites. They don't charge for stuff that is donated to them, like the red cross does. There's are free to the needy. I have a friend in Mississippi whose daughter lost her mobile home in a hurricane. It left her and 4 kids homeless. Samaritan's purse donated her a new mobile home, along with delivery, hook-up and all, so YES, they provide shelter in a permanent way.

Kathyp:

--- Quote ---They don't charge for stuff that is donated to them, like the red cross does.
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Just a correction:  RC does not charge for disaster relief stuff.  Everything they give out, including money, is free to the person in need.

iddee:
They charge a GI laying in a field hospital in a foreign land with bullet holes in his gut. They charge for blood if you are lying in a hospital dying.  They only loan, NOT GIVE, if you have to travel home in an emergency from a foreign country and need money for the trip. They charged for doughnuts and coffee to the GI's in Viet Nam. Those are my four connected experiences.

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