Rebuilding homes in Biloxi

Jess Seigal, a FEMA spokesman in Biloxi, acknowledged that it's difficult to find temporary housing on the coast and that many people are reluctant to leave what remains of their homes.

But "the folks sitting in their front yards don't have to stay there," he said.

FEMA is trying to get trailers to everyone and knows people are frustrated. Seigal said 3,915 units have already been delivered to the six southern counties in Mississippi, including Harrison where Biloxi sits.

He estimates the state will need a total of 30,000 units. He didn't know how many would be required in Biloxi. FEMA was trying to distribute 500 a day.

"We're not there yet," he said.

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However, the church people are helping quietly... LINK LINK LINK
Prince is one of hundreds of Kentucky volunteers who were quickly trained in disaster relief in the weeks after Katrina and have continued to help.
Prince went to Louisiana through the disaster-relief arm of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, which has sent 662 volunteers to help clear trees and branches, clean out homes and prepare meals by the tens of thousands. Many of them are rotating in and out for one-week stints.
The convention has trained more than 2,400 disaster relief volunteers who signed up after Katrina, and hundreds more are expected to train by the end of the year, convention spokesman Robert Reeves said. The training has been slowed somewhat, he said, because many of those who would normally lead the classes are busy doing disaster relief. ...

Personally, I like THIS STORY:

WOODBRIDGE — The students of Our Lady of Peace School in Fords are donating several hundred backpacks filled with crayons, pens and pencils to their peers in Bay St. Louis, Miss., whose school was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
The 250 backpacks are on their way to the Bay Catholic Elementary School, which is a school of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in the Diocese of Biloxi, said Elaine McAndrew, who teaches eighth-grade social studies and is the Student Council advisor at Our Lady of Peace.
“There are five Catholic schools there, of which three were destroyed,” she said. “But the principal there said that even though so many had lost everything, it was amazing that the parents were back at school working to get it open and functioning again.”