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10-11-2005, 09:52 PM
From: Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue (HHERO)
hopefulhaven@yahoo.com
**UPDATE OCTOBER 21ST**
I have a warehouse droppoint as of today!!!!. It is at 13738 LA Highway 331 Erath, La 70533 at a ranch down there. If anyone has anything they need to deliver for us, they can contact me and I will get them with my contact there that will help them get in and get it unloaded. He is busy still working the cattle and horse situation, but he will go to the warehouse everyday and make sure everything is as should be. I also have a constable that will help guard the supplies at night. The warehouse is a big 60' by 80' shed where hay and feed can be taken and the ranchers can drive through to pick it up. I will be down there Sunday at 7:30 am with my load of supplies and we will get some organization there of how it is to be distributed. Then during the week, supplies can come in there and Hank will be there to sign off on anything anyone wants to get in there for me for the ranchers. If we can start getting supplies donated to us and sent to this address that would be wonderful!!! So anything that anyone wants to start getting sent to Erath our way we appreciate you and I will give you a tax donation paper through HHERO....Remember, this is NOT going to be govt. facility where they can dictate who's animals get fed and whose don't, but we will be working in conjunction with the LSU Ag Center in Abbeville to make sure that people aren't getting double and stock piling. Andrew has people's names in his computer who is getting and how much,and they will be crosschecked with mine. There will be records kept of everyone who gets supplies. But the animals are not going to go without anymore down there as long as I can help it!!! So please everyone, start working on donations of the following items for us. Range cubes for cattle, horse feed, panels, barbed wire, and t-posts to repair fencing. These are the main items we need to focus on.
Vet Supplies are always welcome, and can come to Dr. Prejean in Abbeville. He will be the vet we will be using there in Erath.
I need to know who all is coming with me this weekend. Where are my girls from South Carolina? and Florida? Who is coming...please let me know asap so we can get a count on what we are taking in Sunday. Convoy is leaving Sunday from Shreveport, La at 3am from the Summer Grove Baptist Church(the Old South Park Mall) on Jewella. Meeting up at 6:30 am Sunday morn at the OMNI Energy Building on the I-49 in Lafayette between exit 4 and 7 on the frontage road....from there we will travel in to Erath to our new distribution site. If anyone has any questions, they can reach me at 318-286-3116.
Respectfully yours,
Debra Barlow
President &
Animal Cruelty Investigator
P.O. Box 17763
Shreveport, La 71138
www.hopefulhaven.com
Phone numbers:
318-925-4272 home
318-797-6043 fax
318-286-3116 cell
318-7977464 work mon-thur 8-4 fri 8-1
"If ever a horse needs a helping hand, Please God, Let it be ours"
(Monday, October 10th)
MORE CONVOYS TO LOUISIANA'S SOUTHWESTERN COASTAL PARISHES ARE NEEDED TO SUPPLY CRITICALLY NEEDED FEED TO CATTLE AND HORSES
I am begging for your help!!! These pictures don't show even half of
the devastation that we saw on our convoy yesterday...We went with local
ranchers who lost everything.
They have received nothing from the government or FEMA...
COWS AND HORSES ARE IN DIRE NEED OF SUPPLIES (see below) TO SUSTAIN
LIFE...we tried to nurse a cow that has been down 10 days...bottle
feeding a calf that was found the day of the hurricane as being her birth
date...you can see how thin they are...this region is devastated...
Erath, Henry, and Abbeville farmers...Please get on our convoy!!! We
know where the need is the most. Get your friends together, and put
together a horse trailer full of the following supplies...Don't worry about
halters and lead ropes, and buckets as much as these items. This is the need:
Cattle feed, range cubes, horse feed, hay, t-posts for fencing and
barbed wire. Vaccines and syringes also needed.
It is imperative that we focus on these items. LIVESTOCK ARE STILL
IN THE MARSHES. Boats and houses have floated into pastures. The ranchers cried as we delivered them much needed supplies. I was so humbled to be a part of their lives. To hear their stories. Each is different and none the same except that when they were fleeing, in 5 minutes, the water was up to the headlights on their trucks...The surge was 14 feet above sea level.
All these were farms with livestock. Many had little or no feed and hay
when we arrived!
One story sticks out. A 74 year old man and his 3 daughters lived on
the same street. Everything was washed out of their home. He had
$7,000.00 in cash in a safe...It's gone. But the one thing that never moved was 2 ceramic angels sitting in the hall on the steps. They never moved.
Were not swept away as everything else was. What does that tell you.
Let's help the angels of mercy take care of these people.
Farms are lost, livestock is lost. Let's help them feed what we can
that's left. They have nothing for winter.
Our first convoy was this past Sunday. Our second convoy leaves this
Sunday at 3 A.M. from Shreveport, La. at the Summer Grove Baptist Church on Jewella Ave. It's going from there to Lafayette. It leaves the OMNI Energy
Bldg. in Lafayette at 6:30 A.M., and will get to the devastated areas in about
an hour.
Please let me know who is coming with us. Get with your friends and
fill up a horse trailer with needed supplies and jump on board. It's an
experience you will never forget!!!!!
The pics are only a sample of what we saw.
...Call me for more info on the convoy...(318) 286-3116 cell.
The pics are described as follows:
The fields are unusable because of the salt sludge still in them.
These fields will not be usable because of the salt content.
Homes and pastures were destroyed.
The cow has been down for 10 days.
I have a route of farmers we will take the necessary items to
directly!!!!! You will see how much your supplies are appreciated and where your donations go. I got a report today that over at the intake center in Gonzales (which is being closed) they were throwing away supplies. I begged for supplies last week and wasn't given any. This report really upsets me!!! Did they forget other people are still in this state besides them!!! And God
help us all if we have another disaster!!!!
Respectfully yours,
Debra Barlow
President &
Animal Cruelty Investigator
hopefulhaven@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 17763
Shreveport, La 71138
Phone numbers:
318-925-4272 home
318-797-6043 fax
318-286-3116 cell
318-797-7464 work
(Monday - Thursday: 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.;
Friday: 8:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.)
"If ever a horse needs a helping hand, Please God, Let it be ours"
hopefulhaven@yahoo.com
**UPDATE OCTOBER 21ST**
I have a warehouse droppoint as of today!!!!. It is at 13738 LA Highway 331 Erath, La 70533 at a ranch down there. If anyone has anything they need to deliver for us, they can contact me and I will get them with my contact there that will help them get in and get it unloaded. He is busy still working the cattle and horse situation, but he will go to the warehouse everyday and make sure everything is as should be. I also have a constable that will help guard the supplies at night. The warehouse is a big 60' by 80' shed where hay and feed can be taken and the ranchers can drive through to pick it up. I will be down there Sunday at 7:30 am with my load of supplies and we will get some organization there of how it is to be distributed. Then during the week, supplies can come in there and Hank will be there to sign off on anything anyone wants to get in there for me for the ranchers. If we can start getting supplies donated to us and sent to this address that would be wonderful!!! So anything that anyone wants to start getting sent to Erath our way we appreciate you and I will give you a tax donation paper through HHERO....Remember, this is NOT going to be govt. facility where they can dictate who's animals get fed and whose don't, but we will be working in conjunction with the LSU Ag Center in Abbeville to make sure that people aren't getting double and stock piling. Andrew has people's names in his computer who is getting and how much,and they will be crosschecked with mine. There will be records kept of everyone who gets supplies. But the animals are not going to go without anymore down there as long as I can help it!!! So please everyone, start working on donations of the following items for us. Range cubes for cattle, horse feed, panels, barbed wire, and t-posts to repair fencing. These are the main items we need to focus on.
Vet Supplies are always welcome, and can come to Dr. Prejean in Abbeville. He will be the vet we will be using there in Erath.
I need to know who all is coming with me this weekend. Where are my girls from South Carolina? and Florida? Who is coming...please let me know asap so we can get a count on what we are taking in Sunday. Convoy is leaving Sunday from Shreveport, La at 3am from the Summer Grove Baptist Church(the Old South Park Mall) on Jewella. Meeting up at 6:30 am Sunday morn at the OMNI Energy Building on the I-49 in Lafayette between exit 4 and 7 on the frontage road....from there we will travel in to Erath to our new distribution site. If anyone has any questions, they can reach me at 318-286-3116.
Respectfully yours,
Debra Barlow
President &
Animal Cruelty Investigator
P.O. Box 17763
Shreveport, La 71138
www.hopefulhaven.com
Phone numbers:
318-925-4272 home
318-797-6043 fax
318-286-3116 cell
318-7977464 work mon-thur 8-4 fri 8-1
"If ever a horse needs a helping hand, Please God, Let it be ours"
(Monday, October 10th)
MORE CONVOYS TO LOUISIANA'S SOUTHWESTERN COASTAL PARISHES ARE NEEDED TO SUPPLY CRITICALLY NEEDED FEED TO CATTLE AND HORSES
I am begging for your help!!! These pictures don't show even half of
the devastation that we saw on our convoy yesterday...We went with local
ranchers who lost everything.
They have received nothing from the government or FEMA...
COWS AND HORSES ARE IN DIRE NEED OF SUPPLIES (see below) TO SUSTAIN
LIFE...we tried to nurse a cow that has been down 10 days...bottle
feeding a calf that was found the day of the hurricane as being her birth
date...you can see how thin they are...this region is devastated...
Erath, Henry, and Abbeville farmers...Please get on our convoy!!! We
know where the need is the most. Get your friends together, and put
together a horse trailer full of the following supplies...Don't worry about
halters and lead ropes, and buckets as much as these items. This is the need:
Cattle feed, range cubes, horse feed, hay, t-posts for fencing and
barbed wire. Vaccines and syringes also needed.
It is imperative that we focus on these items. LIVESTOCK ARE STILL
IN THE MARSHES. Boats and houses have floated into pastures. The ranchers cried as we delivered them much needed supplies. I was so humbled to be a part of their lives. To hear their stories. Each is different and none the same except that when they were fleeing, in 5 minutes, the water was up to the headlights on their trucks...The surge was 14 feet above sea level.
All these were farms with livestock. Many had little or no feed and hay
when we arrived!
One story sticks out. A 74 year old man and his 3 daughters lived on
the same street. Everything was washed out of their home. He had
$7,000.00 in cash in a safe...It's gone. But the one thing that never moved was 2 ceramic angels sitting in the hall on the steps. They never moved.
Were not swept away as everything else was. What does that tell you.
Let's help the angels of mercy take care of these people.
Farms are lost, livestock is lost. Let's help them feed what we can
that's left. They have nothing for winter.
Our first convoy was this past Sunday. Our second convoy leaves this
Sunday at 3 A.M. from Shreveport, La. at the Summer Grove Baptist Church on Jewella Ave. It's going from there to Lafayette. It leaves the OMNI Energy
Bldg. in Lafayette at 6:30 A.M., and will get to the devastated areas in about
an hour.
Please let me know who is coming with us. Get with your friends and
fill up a horse trailer with needed supplies and jump on board. It's an
experience you will never forget!!!!!
The pics are only a sample of what we saw.
...Call me for more info on the convoy...(318) 286-3116 cell.
The pics are described as follows:
The fields are unusable because of the salt sludge still in them.
These fields will not be usable because of the salt content.
Homes and pastures were destroyed.
The cow has been down for 10 days.
I have a route of farmers we will take the necessary items to
directly!!!!! You will see how much your supplies are appreciated and where your donations go. I got a report today that over at the intake center in Gonzales (which is being closed) they were throwing away supplies. I begged for supplies last week and wasn't given any. This report really upsets me!!! Did they forget other people are still in this state besides them!!! And God
help us all if we have another disaster!!!!
Respectfully yours,
Debra Barlow
President &
Animal Cruelty Investigator
hopefulhaven@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 17763
Shreveport, La 71138
Phone numbers:
318-925-4272 home
318-797-6043 fax
318-286-3116 cell
318-797-7464 work
(Monday - Thursday: 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.;
Friday: 8:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.)
"If ever a horse needs a helping hand, Please God, Let it be ours"