The Society of St. Vincent de Paul did not “go in” to aid hurricane victims. We were already there. We have been serving the poor of New Orleans and the surrounding area since 1852. These are the very people whose faces you now see on television.The Society of St. Vincent de Paul also is very active in Baton Rouge, from which city our New Orleans Council is now operating. The Society Councils of Dallas, Atlanta and Houston are working with the hundreds of Katrina victims now relocated to those cities.
Elsewhere, SVDP volunteers from around the country are involved in locating housing for the victims of Katrina, for assembling water and food and medicine, and countless other resources now being directed to the affected areas, however widespread.
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