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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (40504)	9/27/2005 1:25:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361734

More from da P... Note: forwarded message attached.This was one of the letters I was able to write from the zone, since the 17th Algiers has recieved Funding to become a Model Project for other communitys in the area and recieve seed money to begin to rebuild .This is a war against poverty issue,I am home now feeling a part of me has not returned.I made bonds with the people I worked with and most importantly the people whom we helped.The gratitude for simple things reaches into ones soul and flows forward like lava I am currently working on reorganizing to go back and continue working with several communitys that has spoken to me as a direction I must go.The Houmas Tribe in the Raceland area needs rebuilding and continuous support,Algeirs population will be an estimated 70,000 when they are able to return in full,the displaced hispanic community in which I got invovled with before I had to evacuate From Rita.If any one has suggestions as to where we can find a place to set up 400 people whose apartment building became rubble and they are living in this rubble with no place to go.why has'nt the Catholic church around the corner set up a shelter for these folks?The church is empty and no one was around.I wrote down the the phone number in hopes of reaching someone but continuous no answer.The white landlord is making them evacuate No place to go.The hotel filled with with hispanic workers getting paid minimum wage to clean up the toxic mess in New Orleans,no protective gear,they are 6 to a motel room tensions were running high,one of the rooms was being cleaned but the stench was so unbelieveable i asked if someone had died and the hotel maintence worker said that when Katrina hit the occupants of the room looted the store across the street and took as much meat and ice and packed it into the bathtub and then left the meat rotted into a grey maggot filled mass of bacteria and they were just cleaning it to put people in the room that day,The smell was unbelievable how can they put humans in there?I was appalled.I am going back in December as I need to regroup and come up with a plan to approach a new level of in volvement.Solidarity not Charity indeed.Love from Polly