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Gustav Relief & Preparation for Hurricane Ike
Thank you for your interest in volunteering for the Humane Society of Louisiana.
Our immediate needs are in Tylertown, MS:
1. Construction Projects - Individual and Small Group Projects
2. Animal Transport
3. Supply Transport
4. Hands-on Animal Care
Our Tylertown facility is in a rural location with minimal housing. We welcome self-sufficient campers to stay on-site or accommodations are available in nearby towns.
We are also coordinating with other animal groups who need volunteers at their locations around Louisiana.
Please email Info@HumaneLA.org or call Jenn at 601-876-2781 for more information.
We are not soliciting volunteers to carry out rescue missions. Unlike in the weeks following Katrina, residents are already returning to their homes, where local animal control agencies are operating. We are currently working hard to provide hands-on support to our volunteer chapters, small shelters and rescue agencies, particularly in the impacted rural areas nearby. We are also working to get needed supplies to groups and individuals in the trenches, who are working to help animals impacted by the storm.
While our agency is not authorized to carry out rescue missions, volunteers are being asked to support authorized animal control agencies who are engaged in those activities. We are currently working hard to provide hands-on support to our volunteer chapters, small shelters and rescue agencies, particularly in the impacted rural areas nearby. We are also working to get needed supplies to groups and individuals in the trenches, who are working to help animals impacted by the storm.
If you wish to perform other volunteer services, we will be happy to put you in touch with other agencies.
VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED TO HELP ANIMALS
IN NEED!
Our group lost many of its best volunteers, when they were
forced to move away from New Orleans after Katrina. While
we were blessed to have hundreds of amazing volunteers, who
generously came to help us during the immediate aftermath
of the storm, we now only have a handful of active volunteer
workers, and we urgently need more help.
Our goal for 2008 is to sign up 100 active new volunteers,
as part of our campaign to recover and rebuild. We’d
love to meet you and put you to work for the animals who so
desperately need it.
There are many ways that you can help. If you're interested,
please fill out and send us the Volunteer Profile Form
at the bottom of this page.
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ADOPTED! Hershey and Graham recently found loving
homes at Petsmart. Can you help find loving homes for animals
at our adoption days?
A FEW WAYS TO HELP:
There are many, many ways to help us in and around the
Greater New Orleans metro area and in rural parts of Louisiana:
HELP OUT HANDS-ON WITH ANIMALS:
-Foster care
-Animal transport (to vet appointments, adoptive
homes, etc.)
-Adoption days and animal care at adoption
events -Assist with driving and/or animal care on our cross
country pet transports to the East Coas
--Animal care, adoption and rescue work through
our various Louisiana CHAPTERS; please contact them directly
-Photograph our adoptable pets to help us
promote adoptions
-Train to become a volunteer cruelty investigator
...or
VOLUNTEERS are also needed AT OUR
RURAL SHELTER IN TYLERTOWN, MS
When we fled from the city of New Orleans in 2005, we headed
to the undeveloped, rural property we had recently purchased
in nearby Tylertown, Mississippi, just two hours north of
the city. There was a already a small, residential house on
the property, and our friends at the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary
next door helped to accommodate us, as well. Our New Orleans
shelter was destroyed, and after we weathered the storm in
Tylertown, we mobilized our own, massive disaster relief effort
on the property, which has helped save the lives of more than
2500 at the site since the hurricane.
As HSL works to rebuild and recover, we are still in exile
from our hometown, so volunteers are still needed to provide
hands-on animal care and other support services at our Tylertown
facility. The site of our former Camp Katrina is located north
of Abita Springs, LA. We generally house about 150 animals
at our sanctuary at any given time, 100 of whom are Katrina
survivors with special needs, who may never be able to find
loving homes.
All volunteers ready to roll up their sleeves and get dirty
are welcome, but VETERINARIANS and VET TECHS are
particularly needed, of course! DRIVERS with vehicles,
who can help us TRANSPORT animals and supplies between
locations are invaluable, too!
ALSO: we can’t tell you how happy we are to welcome
volunteers with CONSTRUCTION, CARPENTRY and MAINTENANCE
skills, as we work to upgrade and improve our rural compound!!
In some limited instances, volunteers may be able to stay
on our property (if arrangements are made in advance) and
there are also accommodations available in the town of Tylertown.
(See www.merrywoodcottages.com
or try the Liberty Inn, 6172 Plaza Drive, Tylertown, MS
39667. Hotels and motels are available in nearby McComb,
Mississippi as well.) Hotels and motels are available in the
larger, nearby city of McComb, MS, as well, which is about
a half an hour away from our site. If you are able to donate
your time to work hard to help animals at our shelter site
but don’t have the means to pay for your transport or
lodgings, please don’t hesitate to contact us, anyway.
For hard workers willing to dedicate their time to helping
in Tylertown, we have specific donors and supporters who may
be willing to help make your travel arrangements.
Please fill out and email us the volunteer profile form,
below, including your proposed arrival dates. If you want
to help out for a day or an afternoon, that's fine, too! Assistance
is always needed, with activities ranging from feeding and
cuddling cats to walking dogs and stocking supplies at the
sanctuary site. Just contact us to let us know you'll be coming.
FUNDRAISING AND HELPING FROM HOME!
-Help with campaigns, membership drives
and fundraiser -Coordinate local fund raising events or outreach
activities
-Help develop and maintain our web site and
Petfinder sites
-Contribute writing, graphic design, public
relations or other professional skills to the cause -Host
a fund raiser at your home, school or place of business to
support our program
--Donate artwork, crafts, gift certificates
or other items for our fund raising events
-Assist with research projects or help with
monitoring cruelty cases for our staff
LIVE IN THE AKRON, OHIO AREA?
Volunteers can contact former HSL Board member, Linda
Dell--displaced as a result of Katrina. Luckily for us,
Linda is still hard at work in support of our agency! Linda
can use assistance with clerical and administrative activities.
Please fill out the form below or contact her directly at
linda@humanela.org.
If you have any other questions about volunteering, please
contact us at info@humanela.org.
View
Volunteer Pictures taken at our destroyed New Orleans sanctuary,
before Katrina.
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