Though Hurricane Katrina devasted an area over 2 months and hundreds of miles away from LA, this Saturday I’ll be taking a group of 8 students from CSULA to volunteer at a mobile medical clinic in Whittier that is being set up to assist and serve those that have been displaced and affected by the recent devastation in the Gulf Coast.This opportunity is sponsored by Compassion Net. This is the first of what hopefully will be many “Portable Clinics” to serve not just those impacted by Katrina, but others that need health care provisions in LA.

“Disaster relief accentuates the challenges of rebuilding. We have determined the best way to use our resources: to provide health care resources to hundreds of churches whose members welcome hurricane evacuees into their homes. Our mission is to constitute a firm second wave of assistance long after the media has moved on to the next “big news.”

I’ll let you know how it goes for our students this weekend. I anticipate that we’ll learn and recieve as much as we could possible give.