Our volunteers are lending their communications expertise and assisting a commongroundrelief.org, a locally led and community-run organization offering temporary assistance and mutual aid to the citizens of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. Common Ground's team includes doctors, lawyers, aid workers, community organizers, and volunteers of all stripes and creeds.
In the wake of Katrina Common Ground has been providing emergency services including a community garbage pick-up program; mobile kitchens to provide free hot meals to anyone in the area; a first aid clinic in a local mosque and a mobile first aid station staffed by doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians; and bicycles for volunteers and residents to transport aid around the area; animal rescue; and has been developing a free school for children. Common Ground also operates a medical clinic and community centres.
Reporters from CNN were on hand today covering the activities of the organization including members of our team helping people fill out FEMA forms online. The San Francisco Chronicle has also written an interesting article describing Common Ground's relief efforts.
Tomorrow evening our volunteers are planning to evacuate the area due to the approach of tropical storm Rita along with others back to the Ponchatoula staging area of the RadioResponse.org team, with whom they have also been working to reestablish communications capacity to affected communities.
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