re: Charity/Aid Thread: Where you can volunteer, donate, etc.

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Wife was able to buy a bunch of stuff and put in a donation bin in Walmart in Thibodaux. People are also accepting donations for victims at Peltier Park in Thibodaux

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I love seeing people rally to help each other. It's a shame the big box billion dollar stores like Wal mart and target aren't directly donating mass supplies to help their communities. Shameful.

Send gift cards instead of food and clothes. They are much easier to handle and nothing goes to waste.

Not sure if this has been covered:

Please consider donations of pet food, crates, carriers, leashes, collars & other supplies. 5 animal shelters had to evacuate & are now desperate for supplies. Those that evacuated with their pets to shelters didn't have time to get food. Shelters & rescues are going to be overwhelmed with strays in the coming weeks.

The DS Animal Shelter & Livingston Paish Animal Shelter both have Amazon wish lists.

Dog People of Livingston Parish, Swampy Paws, Cara's House are all local rescues that can be contacted for needs.

If you are in the area & can foster any homeless pets please do.
If one shows up at your home please use FB Lost Pets to find owners.

Admin: if I need to remove rescue names let me know

Really you could go down greenwell springs and stop when you see people hauling stuff.

Tons of people are trying to clear houses right now.

If you live in Houma, there are plenty of locations to drop off needed items:

United Way for South LA

Mulberry Baptist has a truck on St. Charles in the Concord Plaza and is collecting water, diapers, formula, hygiene products through 7pm tomorrow night. Drop offs can be made at the Hi-5 discount store in the strip center.

Chick-Fil-A on MLK will be a drop off site for flood relief items this week (Mon-Thur) from 2-5pm. In return for your donation you'll receive a coupon for a free chicken sandwich. Looking for cleaning supplies (trash bags, bleach, brooms, blankets, detergent, work gloves, etc.)

This is a very small way to donate, if buying shirts is your thing. We designed some shirts that we are selling for $25 where all profit (around $7.75) per shirt goes to flood victims. So far we have sold 91 shirts, for a $653 donation, our goal is 400, which would be over $3000. You can buy them here: https://teespring.com/louisianaflood

There are stickers too with the design on them, but I don't know how much profit comes off of them.

If anybody in Houston wants to send anything to Baton Rouge I'm loading up a trailer and leaving Thursday. I'll be dropping off all donated items at one of the shelters then heading with a crew to start the cleanup effort. We have plenty of water already donated but will take other items. You can email me at jltigerdroppings@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping and I'll get you the drop off address.

If you are in an evacuation center and are healthy please help with cleaning and food service.

Did you just show up at Celtic and ask to volunteer or did you sign up or call ahead of time?

At this point, clothes are not needed. I think that's all we know. Some shelters including Celtic have said that they are at full capacity on donations. If you want to donate something, I'd call a specific shelter first and see what they need.

Yesterday things I heard that were needed were hygiene products, cleaning products, phone chargers, toys or coloring books to keep kids occupied, and things for pets, like kennels, dog poop bags, food, leashes, etc.