Laundry units help "clean up" edge of the Gulf Coast

Dec. 05, 2006 - Families who live at the extreme edge of Louisiana along the Mississippi River could only return home seven months after Katrina - last March - so total was the destruction.

Two months later Orphan Grain Train sent its first relief shipment to the village of Venice, La. It was found that families in the area were driving up to 50 miles from their FEMA trailers to the nearest usable laundry facilities, as FEMA trailers are too small for washing machines.

Orphan Grain Train's "laundry unit" project helps meet the need for laundry facilities closer to home. Electrical panels, wall outlets and doors are added to 20-foot-long storage units. Washers and dryers are added after the units are in place. The units can also store tools and other supplies needed by fishermen and oil workers working with their families to start over.

A total of 12 mobile laundry units have been delivered as of Dec. 5, 2006 and over 25 more are requested.

Dec. 4, 2006 - Two laundry units leave Norfolk. Volunteer drivers Gwyn and Kathy Johnson will take them to the southeastern edge of Louisiana.

You can help bring hope to the families who provide 30% of America's seafood and much of our crude oil. $3,495 will send a 20-foot laundry unit where most needed. Send your gift of any amount to: Orphan Grain Train "Laundry Unit Project," P. O. Box 1466, Norfolk, NE 68702-1466.

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