Do you want to request a work crew or become a drop site to distribute needed resources? Tell us what you need. Please send this to other community leaders trying to organize resources on the ground.

Click here to submit a request.

As requests come in, general information will be posted here and parishes/groups can sign up with Fr. Ryan to fulfill these requests. Check here periodically for ways to meet concrete needs. This will help faciliate the connection of resouces and bring about helping relationships. Please send these requests to the various groups of your parish who may be looking for ways to contibute and respond to the on-going task of rebuilding the affected communities.

1. Multiple requests for consistent cooking crews. This can be a team effort from multiple groups going different days. They'd need a cooking crews to provide the meal and help distribute. Let me now if you have a cooking crew and able to help with this. Fr. Ryan Hallford (rhallford@diobr.org, (504-952-0247)

2. Request from the Catholic Charities in Lake Charles. There is a daily need for volunteers to help in the warehouse organizing donated items, driving fork lifts, and delivering to distributions sites. Volunteers can sign up for this individually. Please click here to visit their website and volunteer.

3. 21 request for different houses needing combinations of chainsaw crews, Debris/Tree removal, tarping, demolition, clean out. If you can hel, you will be assigned a specific house/houses to help work on. Please let me know if you can fulfill one of these requests. Fr. Ryan Hallford (rhallford@diobr.org, (504) 952-0247)

Please fill out the survey and indicate, as specifically as possible, what you are willing to offer and when. We will connect you with a service location and send you specific requests that you can fulfill.

Click here to offer your service.

These are relief efforts being done by other parishes that you may want to implement as well.

• Amazon wishlist. St. Margret in Albany has set up an Amazon wish list in wish parishioners and anyone anywhere can access, make purchases, and the supplies are sent directly to St. Margret who in turn distributes these goods to those in need.

All parishes and institutions that would like to participate in this coordinated plan are invited to do the following:

1. Collect. Each parish collects helpful items from your parishioners/clients at your parish/institute. Please take note that we are intentionally NOT collecting food, clothing, or personal hygiene items. The following items are most needed:

   • Tarps and tarp nails

   • Bottled Water (not needed right now)

   • Gift cards

   • Cash can be donated via the methods the Bishop has already communicated or consult your local parishes.

   • Tools (rakes, hammers and crowbars, shovels)

   • General Cleaning supplies (paper towels, mops, brooms & dustpans, masks, 5-gallon buckets, towels for cleaning, bleach, disinfectant cleaners, hand sanitizers)

   • Heavy duty garbage bags

   • Heavy duty gloves

   • Fix-a-flat cans

   • Bug spray (body & yard)

   • Charcoal

   • Carbon Monoxide detectors

   • Generators & locks (being stolen)

   • Gas cans

   • Chain saws

   • Pole saws

   • AC 110 units

2. Drop off. After collecting items at your parish/institute, bring these items to the nearest drop off point. There will be a designated drop point in each deanery. Be mindful that as you collect these items from your parishioners, you need to have the means to move these items to the drop off area at least once a week. For the sake of clarity, the Pick-up day indicated on the chart below is the day Catholic Charities will pick up the items at the deanery drop off site and transport them to Lake Charles. Thus, you should do your weekly drop up prior to this date. Pastors, Diocesan Institutions, or their delegates are invited to coordinate with the relevant point of contact in the following areas:

   • For the Southeast deanery, St. John the Evangelist in Prairieville will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Dc. Randy Clement. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Mondays.

   • For the Northwest deanery, St. Joseph in Grosse Tete will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Faye Gilliam. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Mondays.

   • For the South Central deanery, Catholic Charities in Baton Rouge will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Carol Spruell. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Tuesdays.

   • For the Southwest deanery, Ascension of Our Lord in Donaldsonville will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Susan Jumonville. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Wednesdays.

   • For the Northeast deanery, St. Margaret in Albany will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Lucie Hanewinkel. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Thursdays.

   • For the North Central deanery, St. Alphonsus will receive donations. Each parish, please coordinate drop offs with Missy Savoy. Please bring items on the days designated by this parish so everything can be ready to be picked up by Catholic Charities on Fridays.

3. Transport. Catholic Charities, through its volunteer corps, will arrange transportation of these items to designated staging areas in the Diocese of Lake Charles. There will be a scheduled pick up once a week until further notice. Deliveries will begin once we have collected enough items to begin bringing over.

4. Delivery Sites. We have created a chart of Church parishes in need, and collaborating with pastors in the area, we will have a rotation of delivery sites to make sure we are reaching those in need.