{"id":11864,"date":"2016-09-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:27:24","slug":"childrens-disaster-services-sends-fifth-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2016\/childrens-disaster-services-sends-fifth-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Disaster Services Sends Fifth Team to Louisiana, Material Resources Ships More Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/cds-logo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"92\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">A fifth team of volunteers from Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS) arrived in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1. Four CDS teams already have completed their service there. The CDS volunteers have been caring for children and families who have been displaced by flooding and are living in American Red Cross shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Material Resources has sent two additional shipments of relief supplies to Louisiana on behalf of Church World Service (CWS).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children\u2019s Disaster Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CDS volunteer teams in Louisiana have served more than 400 children, reports CDS associate director Kathy Fry-Miller. CDS also has teams on alert today to respond to hurricanes in Hawaii and Florida if needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are continuing needs for so many people who fear they may be permanently displaced from their homes,\u201d said a Facebook post from CDS, expressing concern for the families affected by flooding in Louisiana. \u201cWe are grateful for the children that have been sharing their laughter and tears with our teams, and for the families who have shared their children with us during these stressful weeks. We are grateful for our partners in response, particularly Red Cross staff. We are grateful for our volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDS has shared a blog written by a first-time volunteer, Child Life Specialist Brianna Pastewski. Find it at <a href=\"http:\/\/cldisasterrelief.org\/2016\/08\/first-day-in-louisiana-by-brianna\">http:\/\/cldisasterrelief.org\/2016\/08\/first-day-in-louisiana-by-brianna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Material Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Material Resources program based at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., warehouses and ships relief goods on behalf of ecumenical partners and humanitarian aid organizations. In the last week of August, two more shipments were made to Louisiana in response to the flooding, following on a first shipment sent on behalf of CWS.<\/p>\n<p>In the two most recent shipments, CWS released 1,000 clean-up buckets to the Baton Rouge area on Aug. 23, and sent 100 cartons of baby care kits and 400 clean-up buckets to Clinton on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fifth team of volunteers from Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS) arrived in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1. Four CDS teams already have completed their service there. The CDS volunteers have been caring for children and families who have been displaced by flooding and are living in American Red Cross shelters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[456,1253,458],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-cds","tag-material-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}