Matthew 25 Disaster Ministry

May 25, 2017

A final donation of $9,572.61 from donations collected from throughout the United States has been sent to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge for their continued flood relief work.


10/27/2016

Margie Duplantis (center), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, presents a check for $13,000 to Stephanie Bernard (right) and Karol Menard (left) Diocese of Lafayette for on-going August flood relief work.  They continue to clean out houses and have begun forming a Long Term Recovery Committee. They are also providing grants to Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Lafayetter to assist people with the purchase of household goods and home repairs.

An additional donation of $5,126 has been sent to Catholic Charities of Southwest Louisiana for flood relief work in their diocese. They have purchased cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items, clothing and food. They are now in the process of helping families in the Cameron and Jennings areas purchase appliances. They are also engaged with the Long Term Recovery Committee formation.

This follows the distribution of $30,000 to Catholic Charities Diocese of Baton Rouge last month plus an additional $3,000 paid to the clean out crew for flooded diocesan employees.

Thank you for these donations from around the country totalling $60,699, all of which has now been distributed.




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Matthew 25 is the church parish disaster response program for our diocese. Catholic Charities is assisting in bringing together the many talents and resources that church parishes demonstrated after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to organize and integrate volunteer response teams in the event of future disasters. Together, the parish volunteer coordinators and team members are developing a more detailed plan for giving primary assistance, followup care to disaster victims, and disaster preparedness for their church parishioners.