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Project 800: Katrina Global 800 Help - Home is another kitchen table, bottom up relief effort, this time using people's phones to help connect when the "official" lines of telephone communication are bottlenecked. Here is the info from the site. They are looking to recruite 10,000 volunteers in 10 days.

Goal Focus:
We will create a global 800 service for Katrina/Rita Help
with 10,000 volunteers in 10 days.

Come on America - help out FEMA/Red Cross and let's get 10,000 volunteers on phone to help the 1,000,000 who need our help!

Just Get It Done - started by Project Backpack, www.projectbackpack.org, Steve Kantor, steve.kantor@gmail.com

How You Can Help

1. Dive into project website and just get it done.
   
2. Volunteer and join email list of call takers - a Yahoo group.

Vision and Plan - Project 800 - Facts

• There is a need for a single source of help for 1,000,000 evacuees (1ME).
  
• There will be more people with access to phone than access to internet.
  
• There is information on internet and wikis that is valuable for 1ME.
  
• There is easily 10,000 people who are compassionate, smart and will volunteer 5-50 hours per week to take calls.
  
• FEMA and Red Cross need help.� After 20 days they have been unable to scale to answer the unprecedented volume of inbound calls.
  
• FEMA and Red Cross will not answer all questions that 1ME will ask.
  
• Time is NOT on our side.� We need to act first and plan second.
• Just get it done.
  
• We seek to help and supplement FEMA, Red Cross and other GOV and NGO efforts.

Goal Focus

• Project 800 will answer all evacuee calls within 5 minutes and provide comfort and answers better than any GOV or NGO effort.

Needs

• Get the word out - send links to Project 800 websites to your social network, post on blogs, add comments to blogs.
  
• Volunteer to take calls.
  
• Join a topic of the project and take action to get it done.

Vision
The Power of Us - Join Us."

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