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MOST Assists Victims of the 2005 Hurricanes
Please
check in with us and let us know how you are doing! If everything
is okay, let us know!! If you are in need maybe we can help!! We are here for all
multiple birth families.
Even if
you are not a member of MOST – we are here for you!
How Did MOST Respond to Katrina? |
- Emailed all families in LA, AL and MS and asked if they could let us know how they are doing hoping that many were fine and still had access to email
- Asked our Area Coordinators to contact their local hospitals to see if any expectant mothers or newborn multiples or preemies were transferred to their facility for care. Our volunteers organized local families that were available to reach out to these families in need
- Asked all of our members and friends of MOST (via a press release and notice on our website) to let us know if they had heard of any families of multiples or preemies who may have been displaced, lost a family member or in any type of need because of the storm and to please let us know.
- Contacted all of the children’s hospitals throughout the US (via an email message to the CHCA, an organization of children’s hospitals in the United States) and asked them to please be aware of the support we were offering and the services we provide as well as providing a cost-free way for these families to contact MOST via phone.
- Helped link families that were displaced with other MOST families offering to give them a home for however long they need.
- MOST volunteers called over 350 families in LA, MS and AL and spoke with and left messages whenever possible for families of multiples that we know from these states and offered support of varying degrees as needed.
- Contacted national organizations such as NOMOTC, Red Cross, FEMA, Oprah’s Angels, Preemie Magazine, NICU Network (and many more) either via email, website or telephone calls to identify any families that may be in need and to let them know that MOST was available now and in the future if there is a family in need.
- Contacted Habitat for Humanity to let them know that there are MOST members (and friends of MOST) interested in helping to rebuild their communities in these states. We are specifically interested in working on homes for families of multiples and babies born preterm.
- MOST is now registered at the National Emergency Resource Registry.
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Updated 5/14/07
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