Hurricane Katrina
 Fact Sheet

Salvation Army is meeting the immediate needs of at least 500,000 Hurricane Katrina survivors by providing food, shelter, water and ice.

The Salvation Army is working with federal, state and local governments, as well as other faith-based and non-faith based organizations, to determine the needs of disaster survivors in communities immediately impacted by the storm and communities in which many survivors have been relocated

09/10/2005 statistics:

  • Meals served in 15 states: 1,030,000
  • Canteens: 102 in 11 states
  • Shelter populations in SA facilities: 31,000 people in 7 states
  • Army personnel in field: 1,000

Canteens:

·         57 canteens already responding throughout Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi

§         100,000 meals per day in Long Beach, Miss., area

§         50,000 meals per day in Biloxi, Miss., area

    • 18 canteens from every division in the Central Territory will be serving in the South
    • Each canteen can serve up to 5,000 meals a day
    • 4 mobile kitchens have been deployed
    • Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma have received the greatest amount of storm survivors who’ve evacuated their homes throughout the Gulf Coast. Canteens are providing food service at shelters (both Army and non-Army) throughout those state.

Sheltering:

31,000 people being provided shelter at SA facilities in 7 states

 In addition, The Salvation Army is providing food service at non-Army shelters including the Houston Astrodome

  • Salvation Army also providing pastoral care at Astrodome
  • Providing food in large arenas in San Antonio and Dallas

 

    • Across the nation The Salvation Army in local communities is providing aid to disaster survivors

 

    • 4 Salvation Army camps in Texas, Florida, Georgia and Kentucky are acting as shelters offering:
      • nutrition
      • shelter
      • social workers to help develop long-term plans

Donations:

Monetary donations preferred – can be made at www.salvationarmyusa.org or by calling 1-800-SAL-Army or at local Wal-Mart and SAM’S Club stores

In-kind donations from corporate companies only call: 1-888-363-ARMY

A $100 donation will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit

 

SATURN

Saturn, a Salvation Army network of amateur radio operators, has already located more than 4,700 from health and welfare inquiries.   Forms can be found at www.salvationarmyusa.org