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Together, we can put back together families and give them some
stability.
Partners with
Serving the Needs of Families
Clothing - Food - Furniture
Open Thursdays 6:30pm - 9:00pm
and Saturdays 9:00am - 2:00pm.
Our Partners
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The Fire
Department is sponsoring 2 families.
The BG Fire Department Union, Local 416 is sponsoring 2 families
from Hurricane Katrina. We believe the first step in recovering from a
disaster like this is having a stable family environment, someplace to
call home. So we are providing a home to each family
to use.
Most of the furniture and
all appliances have been donated by members, or from special
organizations and people listed below. These items will be given to the families,
so they can take it with them if they ever plan to move back.
Click here to email us
if want to help or want more information.
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Family 1
This Family consists of a mother, a 18 year old daughter
with a 2
year old boy, and a uncle who was air lifted off a roof, 5 days
after Katrina hit.
Their home was in the St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana area. (See
picture below)
The uncle had stayed 4
nights on the roof and was then airlifted, and moved by air
boat and was evacuated to Atlanta. All that time, he wasn’t
sure if his family had survived. He said the worst part was
that when it got dark, you couldn’t see anything, however, you
could hear people screaming for help. The family has never seen
snow but they think facing the cold will be easy compared to
what they have just been through. (We’ll see if we have a
blizzard this winter!!)
Family 2
This Family consists of a mother, a 17 year old boy, and a 19 year old daughter
with a 3
year old girl.
Their home was completely destroyed in New Orleans and they do
not wish to move back.
They along with her older son's family evacuated New Orleans to
Lafayette, Louisiana. They moved inland to a hotel where they had
reservations for, but it was completely filled when they got
there. They were going to
stay in the bar area of the hotel with some others when the
local FD came and found other arrangements for them. This family
was then taken in by a local FD family for awhile.
Both families then decided to move to the Indy area were they had
other family located after hearing that their home was under
water and destroyed. They got a bus ride up here, only bringing
with them a few
suite cases of belongings with them, they have lost everything.
So 3 families have been living together for the last week in one
home and they had asked the Red Cross for help and that is when
they placed this family with us. The older son's family was
placed also in a home provided through a church.
The mother was very surprised to see that a 2nd FD has come to
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We want to give a special thank you to these
people below who have helped us a lot with this project.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald
Co. Inc
Central Indiana Family Support Group
May & Co. (Scandinavian sleep products)
Bob Funke @ Furniture Distributors
Toni Pizzi & Dave @ Napoli Villa
Office Staff at Beech Grove City Hall |
Appliance Recyclers @
5th & Main
Neighbors on Valburn Court
Masterson Properties
Servants Heart
Jim Stewart Cingular Wireless
Beech Grove Fire Department |
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