Updated 10 December 2005
Missing persons, housing and shelter, volunteer opportunities, and more.
From the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
From the State Library of Louisiana. Topics range from missing persons to employment and housing.
"This map is intended for the use of people affected by Hurricane Katrina who have or are trying to find information about the status of specific locations affected by the storm and its aftermath."
"The Katrina PeopleFinder Project NEEDS YOUR HELP to enter data about missing and found people from various online sources. We're requesting as little as an hour of your time. All you need to do is help read unstructured posts about missing or found persons, and then add the relevant data to a database through a simple online form."
"[L]inks to sites that address library community recovery from Hurricane Katrina: helping library workers and their families; fundraising; lists of affected libraries; recovery and preservation efforts."
"A Legal Information Resource for Practitioners and Victims."
"The National Center for Transgender Equality, along with the Task Force and Lambda Legal has released a guide on making evacuation shelters safe and welcoming for transgender evacuees. Our hopes are that this document assists the major shelter managers such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army as well as trans support groups and the LGBT community centers in relevant geographic areas." Download the PDF guide here.
The Hurricane Katrina Emergency Relief Fund for LGBTQ Youth & Families
"For those of us in exile from the region or are still there trying to survive, we hope this site can be used for:
-Finding people we love and meeting fellow citizens.
-Assessing what our communities need wherever we may have landed.
-Collecting our stories, pictures, and art.
-Starting conversations about the issues connected to this disaster.
-Organizing the exile communities of displaced people from the New Orleans region.
-Finding ways to reconnect us all, whether we have access to computers or not."