Update: After returning from the red cross shelter, the team has been assigned to disaster relief in Yazoo City MS. If you aren't familiar, Yazoo City had a GREAT deal of damage from the tornado last month.
Jordan's team was already working in Yazoo, so we have had a team to show us around. Due to an extremely complicated chain of events that I just don't have the time to go into right now, Jordan and I are acting as volunteer and case management with LESM. Many disaster response organizations pulled out this week, turning their case work over to LESM (an organization who only came up to set up a volunteer camp, and at this point does not have the resources, personnel,funding or familiarity with the area to work cases or volunteer management). So, naturally, Jordan and I ended up with a stack of 100+ work orders to sift through and organize. To make things even more complicated, all of the organizations that pulled out sent their volunteers our way. On Friday Jordan and I found work for 100 people (most of whom we had no idea were coming to us for work before they arrived)
This weekend we spent Saturday trying to set up a system for LESM to handle this new job, and today I am catching up on some much needed paperwork and job application...
See you all soon (less than a month until i am free) and send me job ops if you hear of them!!!
Lots of Love,
Casey
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