Disaster Child Care volunteers are evacuated.

A Disaster Child Care volunteer team has been evacuated from the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, La., in advance of Hurricane Rita. The hurricane is headed to the western Louisiana and eastern Texas coastline today, expected to make landfall tomorrow morning. The child care volunteers who were evacuated had been serving evacuees of Hurricane Katrina.

In another Disaster Child Care update, the program expects to offer new Level I trainings soon in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and in Elgin, Ill. The additional trainings have been added to the regular schedule to help meet the high demand for child care for hurricane evacuees. Wilma Ammermann has begun as volunteer coordinator of the additional trainings.

Source: 9/23/2005 Newsline
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