Thanks to Glen Reado and Richard we sorted the medical supplies from Chicago group and shipped them out to the following clinics:
Common Ground - 2 boxes Lower 9th Ward - 4 boxes St. Charles (NOLA) - 1 box New Orleans Children - 2 boxes Daughters of Charity (NOLA) 3 boxes St. Anna's (NOLA) - 3 boxes Covenant House (Tulane) - 13 boxes
We sent a box of diabetes test strips to Common Ground.
Mt. Top Community Church took down 4 pallets of med. supplies to Ocean Springs!! Dr. McNair’s wife, Rhonda, who has been coordinating relief work in Ocean Spring since Katrina hit, was hospitalized with high blood pressure. High BP, respiratory problems and diabetes are the number one health problems down there.
Jim Paul from Kenn-Tenn came down again and picked up 3 1/2 pallets of hospital medical supplies to Ocean Springs. Thanks Jim! He and his wife were dropping off needed food supplies and heading to New Orleans to take a long needed vacation cruise. I love the combining of humanitarian work with vacations.
Mt. Top Community Church headed down to Waveland to do some construction work for Kathleen's group the weekend of the April 19 and took 6 boxes of supplies for Susie Pallard for animal relief. Suzie reported another onslaught of animals being surrender to the shelter when FEMA closed the trailer parks recently. The shelter is getting some food via connections through Christina Davis and Free Haul, but they also are in need of other supplies, particularly cat litter. In addition, there is a new strain of stomach virus affecting the animals. Thanks to Suzie's reporting to the Disease Control Center she now knows how to treat it, but it requires some expensive food. With all of the spay and neutering that the Humane Society has been providing you can imagine that they are pretty much tapped out of funds. I'll be happy to put anyone in touch with Suzie who can help financially or we are happy to serve as a collection point for cat litter etc.
We got another load of diabetic kits in and out. Many thanks to Richard and Glen who are keeping this project going!!!! Here is where they went:
Common Ground, Algiers Clinic and Excelth Clinic -split a pallet of 300 kits Common Ground - 1 box extra strips St. Charles Community Health Clinic - 50 kits and 1 box of extra strips South Cameron Clinic- 50 kits and 1 box of extra strips St. Andrews Clinic - 25 kits Daughters of Charity (Napoleon Ave.)- 10 kits Daughters of Charity (So. Carrollton Ave) - 10 kits Covenant House - 10 kits St. Anna's Clinic - 10 kits Ozanam Charitable Pharm. - 10 kits Angie Free Clinic- 10 kits Jefferson Comm. Health Clinic- 10 kits
As you can tell there was a big demand from the clinics. We are waiting for another shipment to send more to those that only got 10 kits. In some cases they asked for 150!!!!
Other big news- the CAP office has moved a few blocks away to 1704 5th Ave. N., Birmingham, AL 35203. A couple of blocks further from the warehouse, but the extra space we have is WELL worth it.