Update 09/08/2005

Red Cross emergency shelters are providing a safe refuge for tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors. Since Hurricane Katrina first slammed ashore in Florida, the American Red Cross has:

# housed 142,000 survivors in more than 485 shelters in 18 states.

# served more than 3.3 million hot meals to survivors of Hurricane Katrina since before first landfall.

# Mobilized more than 5,600 trained Red Cross workers who have left their homes in every corner of the United States to join thousands of local volunteers who responded immediately to help their neighbors in need