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Camp Coast Care (Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi - LESM)

Faith-Based Disaster Recovery

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Hours
Mon - Fri, 8:00-5:00
Service
Temporary

Notes

Rebuild & Restore
Lives + Homes + Communities
Spiritually, Emotionally, and Physically

Michael Magargel: Volunteer Coordinator
(228) 234-5193
michael@campcoastcare.com

Gerry Sharik: Site Manager
gerry@campcoastcare.com

Camp Coast Care is a Christian community of faith that provides
welcome and hospitality to any volunteer wishing to serve in the
Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Camp Coast Care operates a
recovery and reconstruction mission for those in need on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Camp Coast Care is located on the campus of Coast Episcopal
School at 5065 Espy Avenue, Long Beach, MS. Since the first
days after Hurricane Katrina, we have offered help to survivors
in the from of a distribution center for food, cleaning supplies,
personal hygiene products, clothing, and free medical services.
Camp Coast Care has also hosted thousands of volunteers from all
over the world that have come to clean out and rebuild lives,
homes, and communities.

We continue to adapt the needs of the people affected by Hurricane
Katrina. Our focus has settled to the construction and rebuilding
needs of the community. Volunteer work crews composed of all levels
in skilled labor in the areas of sheetrock installers, carpenters,
roofers, plumbers, electricians as well as unskilled labor are
organized daily to go out into the communities to help residents.
There are also on-campus jobs for volunteers that are vital to camp
campus life. These include social work intake, kitchen and dining
room assistants, facility and grounds maintenance, data entry, and
general office work.

Camp Coast Care is a mission point of the Lutheran and Episcopal
Disaster Response (LEDR), an outreach of the Lutheran and Episcopal
Services in Mississippi (LESM).

Lutheran and Episcopal Services in Mississippi (LESM), a faith-based
initiative, 501(c)3, serves as an instrument seeking to bring dignity,
healing, justice, hope, and encouragement to all people. LESM manages
and conducts numerous programs in children’s education, restorative
justice, and disaster response.

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Speciality: Recovery & Reconstruction from 2005 Hurricane
Katrina

Description of volunteer needs: All trade skills needed to asst
with reconstruction. Unskilled volunteers also welcome

Skills volunteers are required to have: Willingness to work, and
a flexible attitude

Useful Skills: General knowledge of construction, any and all
trade skills

Tools or supplies volunteers should bring: Any specialty
trade tools, if possible. Hand and power tools are provided
by the Camp.

Will volunteers need to bring any money or material, such as
for housing: Personal spending money. Donations are accepted
for housing and food.

Length of time volunteer can help: 1 day to longer, 7 days
preferred

Size of volunteer team: 1 to 80

Are individual volunteers welcome? Yes

Age restriction, if any: 16 and above

Denomination/affiliation, if any: Lutheran/Episcopal - all are
welcome

If yes, must volunteer be a member: No

Any other restrictions: No

Housing provided for volunteers, if any: Yes. Air conditioned and
heated dormitory with bunk beds; private showers and commodes.

Meals provided for volunteers, if any: Yes, 3 per day except
Saturday & Sunday. Gourmet chef on staff. Full kitchen facilities

Any additional notes: Camp has housed over 11,000 volunteers
since Katrina - from all across North America and 16 different
countries,. We need your help now more than ever. Skilled
volunteers are urgently needed and unskilled volunteers are
needed as much as ever.

Approximate date the project started: Aug-29-2005
Estimated date the project will end: Sep-01-2010
Information Updated: Oct-02-2007