Hurricane Katrina severely impacted the lives of tens of millions of people: unknown thousands were killed; 1,000,000 were affected, in varying degrees, throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States, 5,000,000 lost electrical power, or suffered rain and wind damage as far north as Canada.

Awe-struck citizens of our country, and faith-based institutions like the All Faith Consortium, have provided the critical majority of the aid, comfort and care dispensed thus far. The victims families, we, and you, will be called upon to continue providing the critical majority of the aid, comfort and care that will be required in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

Many of Katrina's victims however, like the hundreds of homeless veterans from New Orleans, who are now being sheltered at the Armed Forces Retirement Home and the DC ARMORY in Washington, DC have no family to turn to.

They gave everything to our country and to us. It is now time for us to open our hearts, make sacrifices, and to give them a helping hand in return! We are offering emergency assistance to those evacuees located at the Armed Forces Retirement Home and the DC ARMORY.

• Because the biggest need may very well be housing and employment, we have set-up a network of temporary housing with Washington area citizens who have opened up their homes to evacuees.
  
• We are offering monetary contributions to the families who are taking the evacuees in.
  
• We are providing job training and job placement for every evacuee who needs it.
  
• We are providing emergency assistance, information and access to local and federal benefits to meet their immediate and longer-term needs.
  
• We are providing counseling and cognitive behavior therapy for evacuees that are suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Much of the funding for this relief effort is from AFC's very own budget. Your help is needed to inform the public and make a cash donation so that together we can offer direct, rapid, and efficient humanitarian response. In an effort to assist these and other veterans in need, the All Faith Consortium has opened a Disaster Relief Center and Hotline.
1-866-650-4600

We invite you to make a donation that will enable and empower the All Faith Consortium to help shelter, provide training and job placement for the veterans that were devastated by the affects of Hurricane Katrina. Your donations will also help us to send buses, supplies and volunteers to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in order to search for, rescue and evacuate those veterans who were left behind.

We are determined to leave no veteran behind!

Please contact AFC's Disaster Relief Manager:
Brenda Hunter
Center for Disaster Relief
disasterrelief@all-faith.org
202-232-6161
1-866-650-4600