Massive Local Volunteer Response for Katrina Aid
Published: September 15, 2005
Red Cross volunteers usually have to take several courses before they can help out with disaster relief.
But, Hurricane Katrina has created a desperate need for volunteers. So folks interested in helping only have to take the basic mass care and shelter class before they get in line to head down south.
And there is no shortage of volunteers to take that class.
They’re tough.
Red Cross volunteer Tim Kuykendall says, “I think its a difficult road to volunteer for the Red Cross.”
They’re determined.
Volunteer Lindsey Sepp says, “I just really had a calling and felt like I really this was something I really wanted to do.”
They’re the newest batch of Red Cross trained volunteers. And they’re ready to face one of the biggest natural disasters in our nation’s history. Red Cross trainer Dallas Flener says, “We’re trying to tell them the housing that they might have, the conditions they’d be working under, what they might be doing.”
Dallas and Marji Flener spent Tuesday morning teaching these volunteers the basics of mass care and shelter operation. Sepp says, “I’ve learned just how hands on this really is. I never really understood that they do shelter people and feed people and just the basic necessities of life they really take care of.”
After completing the course, the volunteers will be heading down to help Katrina victims sometime within the next month. They’ll be in the disaster zone for two to three weeks… Donating their own time to help ordinary people.. Struck by an extraordinary storm.
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Our Journey Home: Rediscovering a Common Humanity Beyond Our DifferencesKuykendall says, “I’m sure we all know somebody that has benefited from the Red Cross. I have personally. They came all the way out to Solitude, Indiana to help out our family when my dad’s house burned down.”
Sepp adds, “If we were ever in this situation I would want people like me and my friend and my aunt to come and help me.”
The Evansville Red Cross is running one mass care class every day.
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