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Hi, D'iberville Volunteer Foundation volunteers!

As we approach the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Ed and I would like to thank each of you for your continued support and caring for the recovery of the citizens of our town. With your help, we have completed the rehabbing of more than 650 properties and have 215 in progress and new ones come in almost weekly. We have built or are completing 24 new stick-built homes that our Mennonnite and Amish partners (CAM) and ROAR and teams from New Jersey, Maine, Ohio, and Kentucky framed for us! We continue to work each week on the homes as well as providing counseling, advocacy, food, and spiritual support to citizens weary with the recovery process. They are still smiling and keeping on...it's just with more effort!

We would like to let you know about our Fall 2007 Blitz planned for September through November. This is the "Have a Heart, Give a Hand, Bring Them Home for Christmas" focus to complete the rehab homes so that our citizens can celebrate this Chrismas in their homes rather than in FEMA trailers and campers! We hope you will return to help us make this a reality for the residents of D'Iberville!

We also want to let you know about our Spring 2008 Blitz that is planned for February through April 2008. This is the "Leading the Way, Building with Strength, Making Them Safe before the Storms" focus to finish the new homes we will begin in the fall and winter and finish any damaged homes that come into the system during the winter and spring so that they are in substantial strucures prior to the beginning of the third hurricane season post-Katrina!

We will be open and working in December and January as we check and reassess to make sure no citizen falls through any cracks! We'll also be meeting holiday and other needs as well as continuing the construction and reconstruction work!

If God blesses us with no tropical storms or hurricanes this season, we plan to finish our work May 31, 2008. We will plan the "Come Home and Celebrate" event in June, 2008!

We would not be where we are now without each of you and your contributions! We hope to have time with many of you this next few months as you return to help us complete God's plan for D'Iberville's recovery!

In His Love and with our gratitude and prayers,

Irene and Ed
D'Iberville Volunteers Foundation

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