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MCC is responding to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita by supporting the work of churches in the affected regions.
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It takes a village to help a villageSeptember 29, 2005 Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) sent a truckload of emergency relief supplies from Pennsylvania to hurricane-ravaged DeRidder, La., Sept. 29 after receiving a request that first went from a Louisiana community to Manitoba, Canada, then back to the United States. The circuitous routing of the request says more about how it takes a village to help a village than the legendary administrative red tape often dogging relief organizations. The MCC emergency supplies included more than 2,000 light-weight blankets, more than 600 cartons of canned meat and 500 relief kits and was the second major shipment of emergency supplies, usually bound for international locales, to U.S. hurricane victims. Staff at MCC learned about the situation in DeRidder after receiving a call from a Manitoba resident who had been in the Louisiana town only the week. Residents of Rosenort, Manitoba, had been involved in a separate effort to distribute emergency supplies to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in DeRidder and learned about damage the community suffered from Hurricane Rita. |
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