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Hurricane Season is Upon Us!

Disaster relief agencies are preparing for the hurricane season. The National Guard Bureau of International Affairs (NGBIA) has a contractual arrangement with countries in Hurricane Alley to provide relief if and when the time comes. Their goal is to BE PREPARED this year.

The National Guard has asked for Club help.

Our Rotarian Network Provider-Partner, Clean Water International, is working with the NGBIA-SPP (National Guard Bureau of International Affairs-State Partnership Program), to implement a preparedness program for replacement water supplies.

We want your club to help for just $150.

Most illness and death from any disaster is caused from waterborne diseases. Each person needs a couple of liters of water every day. They can go a week without food. Trucking and flying in water IS NOT the answer.

The US military estimates the cost at more than $300/day/person

This is the cost to US taxpayers to deliver water by trucks, ships, planes and helicopters. With Proctor and Gamble's WaterBox®Program, Rotarians and their communities can be prepared, without any help from the outside world...even those in the remotest areas of the world. WaterBox® is the affordable water solution

By special arrangements with Proctor and Gamble, Clean Water International has made available emergency water systems to be in place BEFORE a hurricane hits. This would eliminate much of the costly transportation to deliver water after disaster strikes. Military units are prepared to assist us in transporting and strategically placing inventory in-country and along the states of our Gulf Coast with Rotary Clubs who will then be able to manage the water needs of their communities.

See: WaterBox®

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Your club can help by sponsoring one or more WaterBoxes. WE know these are tough economic times, but preparedness is cheaper than responding after a hurricane hits.

By special arrangement with Proctor and Gamble's distributor Cleanwater International, Rotary Clubs can purchase a WaterBox kit For $150 (enough to provide the equivalent of 5072 16 oz. bottles of water-about 3¢ a bottle)

This is your club's chance to participate in a "home-grown" program of Rotarians helping Rotarians by helping a Rotary Club in Hurricane Alley purchase a WaterBox®

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NGBIA-State Partnerships...they are the First responders!

Arkansas-Guatemala Wisconsin-Nicaragua Delaware-Trinidad/Tobago District of Columbia-Jamaica Florida-Venezuela/Guyana/Virgin Islands Kentucky-Ecuador Louisiana-Belize South Dakota-Suriname Rhode Island-Bahamas Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic/Honduras New Hampshire-El Salvador Missouri-Panama New Mexico-Costa Rica

Hurricane Disaster Relief Click Here For MORE Information

South Pacific Disaster Response Program

Click here for a program that is intended to meet the immediate emergency water needs of the disaster victims in South Pacific Nations and provide a means of disaster preparedness for future catastrophic events. Samoa Philippines Indonesia

Welcome to The NETWORK Hurricane Preparedness Program The Humanitarian Network has no official affiliation with any Service Organization. It has been developed and will continue to be developed and maintained as an initiative of Individuals helping those engaged in humanitarian projects.

GREGORY L. LANDRY Work: (337) 237-4320 x111 E-mail: greg@la-law.org My Fellow Rotarians of District 6200, Most of you were affected, directly or indirectly by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and/or Ike. If you’ve seen the news in the past few days you’ve seen heartbreaking and hauntingly familiar images of people wading through chest deep water. This time they're not here in Louisiana, they’re in the South Pacific. And they desperately need your help. Rotary has been asked to help get clean drinking water to the survivors of the recent tsunamis and typhoons. When the 2004 tsunami hit the Indian Ocean, we spent $350/person/day to fly drinking water in from the decks of our aircraft carriers. I believe there’s a more cost efficient solution to this challenge (only 52 cents/person/day) and I’d like you to share it this week with your club and others in your communities. The problem isn’t that there’s no water, its that there’s too much water and it isn’t drinkable. If we can’t help our brothers and sisters to get clean water, there will soon be an outbreak of waterborne illness and disease. People will die needlessly from preventable causes. Instead of trying to ship water, we have the opportunity to get water filtering kits delivered where they're needed at a much more realistic cost. Please check out the relief effort and solutions described on these websites: www.projectsupportcenter.org/SOPACIFICRESCUE.htm www.thewaterbox.org/waterboxrelief1.htm For $150 each box, you can supply the equivalent of 211 cases of 16 oz. bottles of clean, safe water, enough for 480 people. It is completely up to you if you or your club wants to participate and if so, how to do so. Some may just want to make a donation. I’m hoping some might choose to publicize the need and partner with your Interact and Rotaract clubs as well as other local non-profit organization and corporations to do more community based fundraising. We've been on the needy end of exactly this kind of disaster and others from across the globe contributed to our aid and recovery. This time, I’ appealing to the Rotarians of our District to step up and save others from disease and death. Their future is in your hands. The easy thing to do is put this letter aside and do nothing, or say it is too much trouble, or “’l get to that later” I’m asking you to put Service Above Self and do something, anything, within your means. I've attached a very brief flyer you can distribute to raise awareness. Greg

Disasters are *disasters* when nobody is prepared Disasters are going to happen no matter how much planning one does Relief efforts are always much more costly than preparedness The community must be aware of ALL potential problems (as Membership Chair for DRRAG, and having attended several meetings covering this ground, we must be ready for every event) The aftermath of a disaster is when the real damage is done to the lives of the survivors Preparedness is not FREE. We would include an outline of our 6-POINT PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM 1. WaterBox emergency portable water 2. CWI First Responder Water Filtration System for 10,000 people 3. Life-in-a-Box Sanitation System 4. Home Haven Stay Registry (Home Sharing) 5. NGBIA-SPP Introduction and Coordination Plan 6. Develop partner districts with Hurricane-Involved districts

The Background . Home Haven . a Rotarian Home Sharing Program The concept was suggested by Rotarian A.F. “Bob” Blair, Past President of The Rotary Club of Thibodaux, LA. Below is the text of his concept as I received it from his club president: “Mr. Bob Blair of Thibodaux Rotary has proposed an idea that might be tackled by Rotary International or District 6200 to assist Rotarians who must evacuate for Hurricanes. His idea is to develop a web site where evacuees could indicate a need and fellow Rotarians in other cities could extend an invitation to the Rotarian to stay with them until the threat subsides or the hurricane passes. Below are some of his more detailed thoughts regarding this idea. I think it's a wonderful idea, but I have no idea how we could go about implementing it. Even if we did have the resources to develop a web site, we would obviously need cooperation of Rotarians throughout the U.S. PROPOSAL - Rotary – Hurricane Haven Will it be beneficial to all concerned? Premise: During Hurricane Evacuation Orders find lodging is very difficult, because entire large areas may be evacuated … overwhelming the housing capacity of large safe areas. Some Rotarians in safe areas might be interested in housing Rotarian families from the evacuated area, especially if their professions are complementary. Name Project, “Algernon”, in honor of Algernon Blair, Director of Rotary International 1934-1935, who is the grandfather of conceiving Rotarian, A F “Bob” Blair Jr, Past President Thibodaux Rotary 1986-87. 1. Define all possible hurricane-possible (h-p) areas a. Use National Weather Service Hurricane Maps 2. List all Rotary clubs in these h-p areas. a. Use Rotary International lists b. Obtain a Rotary International Password (at least 20 characters) 3. List Rotarian by Rotary Number in the h-p area that would be interest. Do not list the name since this will be on the Internet. a. List for h-p habitat seeking Rotarians Bio (Prepare Form): i. Rotarian create high-security Password ii. Occupation iii. Retired or Active iv. Family requiring housing v. Pet(s) and Requirements for it (them) vi. Other special requirements vii. Other information 4. Give h-p Rotarian etiquette rules, especially stay time anticipated (i.e. until electricity is reestablished. 5. Define all areas outside the h-p areas within 500 miles. 6. Find all Rotary clubs within 500 miles of that line. 7. For each club, create a reasonable distance (say 500 mile) of the h-p club to the outside h-p club (using GPS location software). 8. Create a list of possibly interested habitat Rotarians with Rotary number and high-security password. 9. National creates the software for input of h-o Rotarian and habitat Rotarian Operation: at any time during a hurricane warning, a h-p Rotarian can activate his request for (possible) habitation. It could be inactive, but preregistered. Rotary International would advise all 500-mile clubs of any requests and provide h-p e-mail.”

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