Thousands of Americans across the country have offered to temporarily house refugees who survived the disaster. The Web sites below can help connect volunteers with refugees seeking shelter:

• Hurricane Housing
http://www.hurricanehousing.org/
• Welcome Wagon: Emergency Housing Search
http://relief.welcomewagon.com/
• The Open House Project
http://www.theopenhouseproject.org/
• Katrinahomes.org
http://www.katrinahomes.org/portal.php
• Open Your Home
http://openyourhome.com/
• Katrina Homes
http://www.katrinahomes.com/
• Hurricane Housing Search
http://www.hurricanehousingsearch.com/
• HomeFlood.org
http://www.homeflood.org/
• MoveOn.org: Hurricane Housing
http://www.hurricanehousing.org./
• KatrinaHousing.org
http://www.katrinahousing.org/
• Operation: Share your Home
http://www.shareyourhome.org/
• US Committee for Refugees
http://www.refugees.org/

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Family News Network - Locate your family
http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/KATRINA/locate

Katrina: Search for Missing People:
http://boards.news.yahoo.com/boards/
Connect metta practice to the real world:

action and activism

ways to volunteer to help

News worth Listening to:

news.bbc.co.uk/
democracynow.org
nyc.indymedia.org sf.indymedia.org/
indybay.org/

And if you get overwhelmed: Practice Metta!