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What Can WE do to HELP (Katrina)
Hi All, I've been thinking for a while what can WE do in the MM community to help those affected by the terrible disaster. I know that MONEY is needed more than anything else. However, besides sending our own money to the relief efforts can WE do something to help raise money, food, clothes, etc... Our donations have been made already but I wanted to see if the MM community would like to come up with ideas that we can possibly help even more. One of the things that I've been thinking of is to do a fashion show to raise money. I know there must be tons of people here who have connections and so forth that we may be able to pull something through. Any thoughts? steph Sep 01 05 12:23 pm Link Putting together a fashion show takes time. It is so much easier to just send the money or whatever is needed. Information is everywhere. Go to your local newsstation website. Send something now if you are going to do it. Now is when they need it. Sep 01 05 12:27 pm Link I've been considering going to the affected area to offer assistance on the scene, but aside from taking photos and telling jokes, I don't know that I'd be able to do anything besides get in the way. Sep 01 05 12:29 pm Link I know it's not what you're looking for, but one of the most important things we can all do is to remember the hard-working charitable organizations after the recovery is over. After 9/11, the Red Cross had such a surplus of blood they had to throw a lot of it away, but by 2002, they were back to their normal shortages. It's fantastic that people are interested in helping right now, but these organizations do good works every day and get little of the needed assistance between the headline tragedies. Sep 01 05 12:44 pm Link Not sure how a fashion show would raise much. I think a MM calendar or something would generate more. Plus images can come in from all over. Fashion shows are one spot things. First off money and blood are needed. I am signed up to donate blood tomorrow at my blood bank. The blood overage thing was because in reality the WTC didn't injure many people nationally. I think a lot more people are going to be directly affected by this. Long term. Raffle off 4 hours of modeling time and donate the money. Roger shot a comp card that was auctioned off on e-bay and all proceeds were donated to the tsunamis victims. Sep 01 05 12:45 pm Link XtremeArtists wrote: Monroe is currently housing thousands of evacuees, Im sure the need volunteers. Most likely food, water and all of the basic things people need to live. Most of the evacs are staying at the Monroe Civic Center, here is their number & address: Sep 01 05 12:46 pm Link Dan Hood MM/Moderator wrote: That's a great idea Dan Hood! Do you have any suggestions on how to start this? Anyone? Sep 06 05 06:48 am Link Great suggestion Jordan! As someone who is here in New Orleans I am desperately trying to directly help the victims. We are trying to set up a staging area in Jackson MS (only 3 hours away) to accept clothing and other items for those effected. In the last couple of days I have been struggling to get a charity set up and a website. You cannot believe the politics involved in this. This is part of the reason New Orleans is in such bad shape. We should have our website fully operational today! I already have streaming video from during the hurricane and directly after, Plus photos. Please Visit www.orleansdisaster.org Also I have some New Orleans shots in my portfolio that perhaps we could use. Thank you for your help, Michael Siu Sep 06 05 07:54 am Link Here is just a thought. But we could send autographed photos or we could sell them on ebay and then send the money to LA or to Red Cross to help them out. I know that we are thinking about furnishing one of our apartments here in NJ for a family if the gov. will allow it to happen. I'm going to be doing research work on that soon. I hope that everyone has a wonderful evening. Sep 06 05 11:23 pm Link |
