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I've been so emotional watching this all unfold! I have a lot of very close college friends who live in Houston or parents still live in area. One was evacuated yesterday by the Cajun Navy. Another just had a child 3 weeks ago and is in the Cardiac NICU at TCH...they are taking him off life support on Friday. She had to get out to further north so she can recover from her csection and her husband didn't want her to do so without the possibility of no power. Anyway, she was also transported by CN from Humble to TCH yesterday. I'm totally weepy hearing about all of it and what people may have lost!
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So sad/concerned and wanting to help. If anyone has a Houston school contact, my class can reach out with something appropriate to help kids. We just completed flood studies last week. I will be in Houston on layover in about a month.
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@matador84: I just saw a post about your friend in my MEND support group, she is the sil of a friend of one of our members, so sad
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@LAZB: Yes! So sad.
What amazing strength she has had.
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@ShootingStar: @matador84: I love that the Cajun navy is getting national coverage. When we flooded in Louisiana last year the official channels weren't equipped to helped everyone (we called for evacuation and they called back 14 hours later to ask if we still needed help). It was just normal people who owned boats who were out on the street getting everyone to safety, who started calling themselves the Cajun navy. Since this literally just happened to us they were able to use everything they learned last year to be even more efficient this time, which is sad in a way, but definitely helpful.
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Anyone still in Houston and needing childcare while you deal with insurance/cleaning/stuff, this Day Camp will be open to children potty-trained through middle school, and will provide 3 meals a day. Families are welcome to eat breakfast and dinner with the kids.
the JCC, a summer camp, and a temple have coordinated to host a program for those who need childcare while taking care of their lives or helping the lives of others in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Camp will take place at Congregation Emanu El (1500 Sunset Boulevard. Houston, Texas 77005) beginning on Thursday, August 31st.
Hurricane Harvey Houston Day Camp is a great way for children to get a chance to have fun with other kids from across Houston, while giving parents the time and space to take care of their homes, cars, and other responsibilities they may have after this difficult week.We will be providing three meals a day, including a breakfast and dinner that entire families are invited to attend. In the coming days, we also hope to bring supplies at pick-up and drop-off that will help you and your family recover from the storm.
Camp is staffed by teachers, camp professionals, and parent and high school volunteers from around the area. We will also have security on site, as well as trained medical professionals on site or on call. -
@808love: i am a teacher but I think my school is fine. Once we get more info about affected schools I can probably get you in contact with an affected classroom.
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@travellingbee: Thank you so much!!! If you have any ideas in the meantime in which we could be of service through, financial, emotional, material or type of q/a processing, curriculum connection support please wall me.
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@mrslonghorn I would like to donate to this. Is there a link you can share that I can then share with my network/synagogue?
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@MrsLonghorn: Yes, can we donate to this camp? This is amazing!
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@lioneyes @littlebug: Here are the links I have - I will try to get a donation link that is specific to the day camp, and will update this post if I can find one.
Register for Day Camp at Congregation Emanu El (1500 Sunset Boulevard. Houston, Texas 77005) Camp begins on Thursday, August 31st. You are allowed to send your child if your house didn't flood, but you wan to spend the week helping others with recovery: https://greene.org/hurriane-harvey-houston-day-camp/
Donations to support evacuee housing at Greene Family Camp in Bruceville, TX (GFC is the overnight camp that will be running this day camp too): https://urj.org/hurricane-harvey
AS FAR AS I KNOW, these donations are for evacuation housing, not the day camp. It is the same organization, but a different purpose.A page from Temple Emanu El with lots of info and the links I shared above: https://emanuelhouston.org/node/2517
A page with all of the Greene Family Camp info (day camp, emergency housing, etc): https://greene.org/hurricaneharvey/
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I live in the area and my family is safe with no damage. I must admit that I feel kinda guilty about being ok. I'm grateful, but people are still struggling.
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@FancyGem: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10107961592980875&id=23419022&ref=content_filter I saw this shared on Facebook the other day. (Although I'm not sure how posting a link to a public status will work here?) It's an excellent list of things you can do to help friends or family that flooded. Reading it I only wish I had that to ask someone to help me save family photos.
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This is my friend's campaign to raise money for the Houston Legal Aid Center for long-term help for the victims. She started this campaign locally in 2015 when our area was terribly flooded and it went viral. She is now restarting it for Houston. 100% of the profits go to the legal center. Texas Strong Flood Relief | Teespring
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@Miss Ariel: I'm already doing my part to help. I just felt a little guilty about being ok.
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@808love: This may not be exactly what you were looking for, but my school district is raising money to support the teachers and students affected by Harvey. https://www.pledgecents.com/cause/yldlny/hurricane-harvey-supporting-sbisd-famili.
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@travellingbee: Thank you. That's a good option if I go that route. Several students are reaching out to Texan relatives. Today a student told me she just found out from her parents that her mom was greatly affected by Katrina. She shared a lot about her family story. It was by her evacuation to another state that directly led to her parents' marriage. Anyway, I have options now!
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So my students Facetimed with relief and restoration volunteers yesterday. They are from our state and on site temporarily in Houston. The students saw the streets and homes and asked questions. The kids got a personal view of empathy in action and gave them a greater purpose for service and our next flood solution designs. Of course I'm just waiting for the students to say, What can we do to help right now? so I can empower them with ideas. Just working up to that though. I really want to shape our future generation as ones to bring positive change to the world faced with so much tragedy.
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@808love: that sounds great, I love that you're doing it. If your class wants any suggestions for local charities/ways to help, I'm happy to offer ideas.
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@MrsSCB: Thanks. Besides charities, what other ways do you suggest?
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@808love: What about something like writing thank you letters to first responders? Or even doctors and nurses? Some of them were working in their hospitals for many days without leaving to keep patients safe.
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@MrsSCB: Yes! We are writing letters to the rescue guys I know (the same ones we talked to) but other community helpers would definitely work as well. Thanks!
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@MrsSCB: Now that I think about it, the lead volunteer (my friend who we face timed on site) is a doctor in his regular job. So this is what he does in free time....fly to Houston. Just blows my mind how giving the volunteers are and makes me realize how there are so many volunteers that actually have full time jobs but are sacrificing to go and pitch in. So relieved to see the area had dried up in places but I know the rebuild will be a long road.
What amazing strength she has had.
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