[amc] MDS Update: September 13, 2012

From: Austin Mennonite <austinmennonite@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:41:20 -0500
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Subject: MDS Update: September 13, 2012
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:04:38 +0000

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 This is the MDS Update for September 13, 2012

*CURRENT NEEDS <http://e2.ma/click/u0n7b/uo61yb/2ug4q>*
As needs become clear for responding to damage from Hurricane Isaac, the
MDS website will be updated.

An assistant cook is needed in Bastrop, TX, Nov. 5 - Dec.14.

Short-term volunteers are needed this fall in *Bastrop, TX, Joplin, MO,* and
* Minot, ND*, beginning in October. There will be a need for foundation and
framing crews in numerous locations this fall.* *

We are currently booking short-term groups for the fall projects
(Oct.-Dec.). Booking for winter projects (Jan. -Mar.) will begin in October.

If you are interested in any of the opportunities listed, please call (800)
241-8111 or e-mail syoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for more information.

*Hurricane Isaac Report*
An ERT group from Lancaster County, PA, began clean up work in Braithwaite,
LA, in response to Hurricane Isaac. The team, volunteers through MDS Storm
Aid, arrived Monday and another team arrived on Wednesday. They are working
in Braithwaite, mucking out homes and removing debris. Jerry Klassen,
Disaster Response Coordinator, noted that the community is still without
fresh water, so the Parish officials have provided a fresh water truck to
provide water for cleaning out homes. The ERT group is working with skid
steers, water pumps and pressure washers, along with shovels, buckets and
wheelbarrows. News agencies report that Hurricane Isaac destroyed some 450
homes in the parish and damaged at least an additional 400. Isaac hit on
August 29, seven years to the day of Hurricane Katrina. The east bank of
Plaquemines Parish, the most devastated area, was flooded with up to 14
feet of water after the gulf-side levee was breeched. Klassen reported
seeing houses that were washed off of their foundations and came to rest
against the levee.

Reports from Diamond, LA, confirm that all elevated MDS-built homes
survived Hurricane Isaac with minimal shingle damage. Some homes that were
not elevated were flooded.

Click here to see MDS Hurricane Isaac
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*Region V launches “Hay Drive East”*
The Saskatchewan Unit of Mennonite Disaster Service has launched a Hay
Drive to assist farmers in drought-stricken areas of Eastern Ontario and
the US Midwest. The MDS Ontario Unit is launching a project to receive and
distribute the hay.

Drought has severely impacted the livestock sector, not only creating a
shortage of hay, but forcing farmers to feed hay stored for winter to their
livestock now. MDS is working at moving surplus Saskatchewan hay to drought
stricken areas. MDS Ontario is working collaboratively with other
organizations to ensure broad awareness in drought affected areas, to be
positioned to receive hay, and to distribute it in the most effective way
possible.

Farmers willing to donate hay should contact Ike Epp via e-mail at
birwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or call the Region V office, (866) 261-1274, for
Epp’s contact information. Anyone else wishing to support this cause is
invited to donate financial resources to help defray the cost of moving
surplus hay. Donations can be sent to the MDS Region V office, 6A-1325
Markham Rd Winnipeg, MB, R3T 4J6, or any MDS Unit. Farmers in Ontario or
Quebec suffering from the drought and in need of assistance should e-mail
Delmer Erb, edm@xxxxxxx, or call the Region V office, (866) 261-1274, for
Erb’s contact information.

The US Hay Drive launched by the Eastern Ohio/Northwest PA MDS unit is
still underway. Wyman and Marie Miller, MDS Sec/Treas. Eastern Ohio
Northwest PA Unit are coordinating the drive. For the Millers’ contact
information, please call the Binational Office (717) 735-3536. Monetary
donations can be made to Mennonite Disaster Service Hay Fund, 5452 TR 377,
Millersburg, Ohio 44654.

*BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA*
<http://e2.ma/click/u0n7b/uo61yb/yfi4q>*Disaster: 2011 Tornados*.
The Birmingham project is temporarily closed and will reopen in October.

*JOPLIN, MISSOURI <http://e2.ma/click/u0n7b/uo61yb/e8i4q>**
**Disaster: 2011 Tornado*
Framing will begin on three new homes this fall. The foundations were
poured by volunteers in late summer.

*MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA
<http://e2.ma/click/u0n7b/uo61yb/u0j4q>Disaster: 2011 Floods*
The Minot project is closed to regular MDS volunteers until Oct. 1.
Volunteers working on the BC Unit PHP house will use the project for
housing as they work on the BC Unit project in Minot.


*Contributions may be sent to:*
USA: 583 Airport Road, Lititz, PA 17543 or
Can.: 6A-1325 Markham Rd, Winnipeg, MB R3T 4J6
Donate Online <http://e2.ma/click/u0n7b/uo61yb/atk4q>
Tel: USA (800) 241-8111 Can. (866) 261-1274

Remember the variety of ways you can give to MDS – volunteer your time,
give money through cash donations, planned gifts, bequests and traded
securities. Call our office to learn more details.


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