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Can Communities of Interest support Katrina refugees in diaspora?

September 2, 2005 02:50 AM

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Hurricane Katrina refugees lost more than property. They are uprooted, sheared from the close friends and hundreds of acquaintances that make the social fabric of our lives. We can help them reconnect with old roots and plant new ones.

Goal: Help people easily form "tribes" sharing common affiliations or goals.

Examples: Survivors from a neighborhood. New settlers in a town. An extended family. Schoolmates. Coworkers. Health care workers seeking certification in a new state.

Specifically: Make it simple to provide the online/offline tools that help groups form and sustain themselves:

  • Phone trees.
  • List serves.
  • Blogs and wikis.
  • Conference calls.
  • Chat rooms.
  • Buddy lists.
  • Meetups.
  • And directories so people can find and join groups.
Some of this has started, a little here and there. We need a comprehensive and integrated approach to make communities from strangers.

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Posted by: Info at September 3, 2005 9:49 PM

MPLAT supports hurricane disaster relief efforts

Throughout the past week, Hurricane Katrina has reached across the Florida and Gulf Coast regions. An estimated 1.3 million homes are without electricity and more than 100 people were left dead after the category 4 hurricane swept through the Gulf Coast states. The land lines have shutdown as telephone buildings flooded.

MPLAT have many customers from United States of America, MPLAT decide to donate to support the ongoing relief effort. We will donate ten dollars in every selling flashphone, to Canadian Red Cross, is working with the American Red Cross to help refugees.

Those who wish to assist the immediate relief efforts may donate to the Red Cross. Canadians with good reason to believe that Canadian relatives are in the affected areas may contact the Emergency Operations Centre of Foreign Affairs Canada at 1 800 387-3124; or by e-mail at sos@international.gc.ca.

The US Government's Federal Emergency Management Agency website - www.fema.gov - has extra information on locating missing relatives and friends.

For every order of flashphone, and ten dollars sale will donate to Canadian Red Cross. Thank you.

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