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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!
If
you have information about a multiple birth family in the flood area, please email MOST. Thank
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 NMOTC, 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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News About the Hurricanes and Multiple Birth/Preemie Families |
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Premature babies spared Katrina’s wrath
More than two dozen evacuated from New Orleans hospitals
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9162855/
Premature twins delivered to mom after days spent in the New Orleans Superdome.
MOST has reached out to the social workers at this hospital and the shelters to try to help!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/19/katrina/main859556.shtml
One 2-year-old twin was in unstable condition after transplant surgery when the hurricane hit. She's now at the Nebraska Medical Center.
http://www.theomahachannel.com/health/4977359/detail.html?rss=oma&psp=health
 More dark days in New Orleans, but Pittsburghers offer hope
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05245/564291.stm
Kids on Wildberry Road in Fox Chapel run a lemonade stand to raise money for hurricane victims. From left, Taylor Dias, 8, Austin Henry, 9, and the Diebly triplets, Cameron, Morgan and William, all 10. Their sign reads "The money is going to New Orleans and other hurricane victims."
Hurricane displaces 18-year-old triplet Tulane student: Her two sisters are attending different schools, and she is transferring to another school. She lost all of the belongings she had at Tulane.
http://www.milforddailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77084
Starting over with a warm reception Katrina victims arrive at St. Raphael’s to begin a new life:6-year-old twins in Rockville, MD
http://www.gazette.net/stories/091405/aspenew234635_31906.shtml
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling rented a house in Hudson with the South Middlesex Opportunity Council's
help for a family with seven children, including twins in middle school.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=108810
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Local Resources for Families of
Multiples, Preemies and Special Needs Children
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State: Alabama
Area codes covered: 205, 256, 377
Name of group Birmingham Area Mother of Multiples
Contact person (optional) – Suzie Carter Hardin, Benevolence Chair, twinboys04@hotmail.com AND suzieqtwins@yahoo.com
Website for group: www.bamom.org
Email contact: twinboys04@hotmail.com
Services provided: tangibles items like new or used-clothes, formula, baby items, car seats, furniture, gift certificates, groceries, housing and social services referrals. The group may possibly assist with rent.
State: NJ , NY
Area codes covered: 201, 973 , 845
Name of group: Multiplicity, or Bergen/Rockland County Triplet Moms
Contact person: - Kathie Schwartz
Email contact wjkjs@optonline.net
Services provided: Depends on the need, but likely will include donations of clothing, diapers, formula, school supplies, etc. based on need and age group.
State: OK (Tulsa and surrounding areas)
Area codes covered: 918
Name of group: Tulsa Mothers of Multiples
Website for group: www.tulsamoms.org
Email contact: TwinMommie62500@aol.com
Services provided: any services provided will have to be determined by the group’s board, but they do have a Philanthropic Fund for needy families of multiples and offer a certain number of scholarship memberships per year to those with a financial hardship...The group also sends out requests on the club email lists for clothing or other specific needs that members can donate.
Updated 5/14/07
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