child care at the FEMA tent village

Author: Jordan

15 Feb

Rebecca runs a 24-hour child care center in Long Beach, east of Pass Christian. Their building was badly damaged, so there is currently no child care available in the area. A group called Save The Children brought her to the FEMA tent village to organize the effort to provide a day care facility for the residents. Many of them cannot work until the day care opens.

Two large steel structures with Kevlar shells were donated by AmeriCares and Sprung Instant Structures. Our volunteer group has been tasked with several projects:

installing flooring over the 2-foot-high plywood platform upon which they sit
framing a 4-foot-high knee wall around the inside perimeter to protect the kids from the sharp metal anchors where the steel beams meet the floor
installing wiring to rough-in electrical outlets in the wall
building a deck to connect the two platforms
building a railing to keep kids from falling off the platforms

Filed under: Pass Christian, MS

2 Responses for "child care at the FEMA tent village"

johnsonroad.net » Bush slashing AmeriCorps by 80% February 28th, 2006 at 12:57 pm 1
[...] We encountered a group of AmeriCorps kids while we were eating lunch at the FEMA tent while working on the child care tents in Pass Christian, MS. The Bush administration calls the program “ineffective.” President Bush, who embraced AmeriCorps as part of his “compassionate conservative” agenda in 2001, now wants to shut down a part of the national service program that his administration has deemed “ineffective.” [...]
iequalsi (i=i) » Blog Archive » Bush slashing AmeriCorps by 80% February 28th, 2006 at 12:58 pm 2
[...] We encountered a group of AmeriCorps kids while we were eating lunch at the FEMA tent while working on the child care tents in Pass Christian, MS. The Bush administration calls the program “ineffective.” President Bush, who embraced AmeriCorps as part of his “compassionate conservative” agenda in 2001, now wants to shut down a part of the national service program that his administration has deemed “ineffective.” [...]