Request From Mayor Franklin re: Katrina Evacuees

Subject: Helping Mayor Shirley Franklin with people who arrived in Atlanta because of Hurricane Katria
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My gym is located in the Adamsville Recreation Center in Atlanta.
The American Red Cross asked Mayor Shirley Franklin to open the center as a designated shelter for those women, men and children who
evacuated from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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While visiting the gym this morning, I had the opportunity to speak
with the Mayor Franklin and she shared with me some of the need of the people in the shelter.
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She indicated that she wants to provide more than just shelter, but
assist with getting the more than 60 children in school, so she has
people from the Atlanta School System on site and the Mayor also
wants to assist with locating employment for the adults. There are
about 300 people in the shelter this morning.
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The mayor has deployed her staff, staff from the Atlanta Workforce
Development Agency and numerous other city support service agencies to the center to assist the evacuates.
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Mayor Franklin mentioned that people can assist by donating the
following items:
> *Underwear
> *Socks for women, men and children
> *Packages of Diapers
> *Work clothes for women, men and children
> *Shoes for women, men and children
> *Clothes for children
> *Packages of Water
> *Packages of Juice
> *Packages of Toiletries
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The people left their homes with only the clothes on their backs.
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The Adamsville Recreation Center is located at 3201 Martin Luther King Drive SW at 285.
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The telephone number at the Adamsville Recreation Center is 404 505
3181
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Please feel free to pass this email to your family, friends and acquaintances..
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You can also call the Red Cross Volunteer Hotline at 404 870 4425,
http://www.redcross.org /
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American Red Cross Disaster Call Center 404 870 4440,
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Salvation Army 770 441 6200, ext 148 http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm
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Atlanta Workforce Development Agency 404 658 6312, Ms. Deborah Lum

DO NOT take anymore donated items to that shelter. They had no room for it. Giving cash to the Red Cross is the best way to help right now.