more than 2,000 children still unaccounted for?!

[soup]

2,700 total
700 'resolved'
just on CNN American Morning

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Are any with child abusers, Mr. Bush?

You always say "Leave No Child Behind". Why is that the policy is "No Child Left Behind, except in New Orleans"?

[soup]

2. over 2,000.

Only caught the last bit of the report, but the number of missing kids just floored me.

Some of the parents stayed behind when they made sure their children were loaded onto helicopters.

Guy (didn't catch his name) reporting the numbers said they're getting calls everyday from parents whose children are missing.

WTF?

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2113
Media Advisory
September 15 2005

PHOTO PROJECT TO HELP CHILDREN DISPLACED BY HURRICANE KATRINA REUNITE WITH THEIR FAMILIES


WHAT: The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has joined forces with FedEx Kinko's to help reunite children, separated by Hurricane Katrina, with their parents or guardians. FedEx Kinko's will photograph children, or scan any pictures of children or adults that are missing, and provide them to the NCMEC where they will be posted on their website. All services will be provided free of charge.

WHERE: FedEx Kinko’s locations nationwide


WHEN: Ongoing beginning September 12, 2005

HOW IT WORKS:

Individuals can have a digital photo taken or can bring a photo to FedEx Kinko’s. The photos will be provided to the NCMEC along with contact information. Photographs and information can be viewed at www.missingkids.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to staff a hotline to take reports of missing children, missing adults, and recovered children who have lost their parent/guardian. People searching for someone who is missing or are caring for a child who is separated from his or her family, can call the Katrina Missing Persons Hotline at 1-888-544-5475.

CONTACT:

NCMEC Communications Dept
703-837-6111
FedEx Kinko’s Communications Dept
214-550-7026

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. The number floors me too.

[Village Idiot]

10. You sure it wasn't "Leave no child's behind?"

[SmokingJacket]

3. Why no central database for all the missing?

I find it hard to accept they're all dead -- they must just be lost in the system.

Either that or the "much lower than expected" body count is complete bs.

I've been trying to track down people I used to know down there, but have found dozens of different lists, very confusing.

[Draill]

5. Katrinslist.com

This is a list that was compiled after scouring the 'net for all the seperate lists that they could find. DUer sarahlee let us know about it here. They may still need volunteers for data entry, too.

<http://katrinalist.net/> the list

<http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Katrina_PeopleFinder_Project>
where you can help with data entry, etc.

[SmokingJacket]

7. Thanks -- that's a great resource

I helped input names right after the disaster, but I'd forgetten about it.

When I'm hired as the head of FEMA (why not? I'm as qualified as anyone!) keeping an accurate list of names of the missing, dead, and searching will be a priority.

[vptpt]

11. Do you have any experience with horses?

[Draill]

13. You're Welcome!

I wondered if I could get that FEMA job myself, a time or two. ;-)

[soup]

9. Thank you for the reminder, Draill.

Last I heard, sarahlee had posted about a 2nd phase being set up to list all the shelters and contacts. I need to check back in and see if they're ready for the 'copy and pasters' yet.

[Draill]

12. You're Welcome! Yes, they are doing a shelterfinder thing

I signed up for email notification when they're ready for data entry, I should get over there and check, tho.

[Solly Mack]

4. I saw the CNN show- where they showed the pictures of many of the missing

children, along with their names and phrases like "last seen at the Superdome" and "last seen fleeing a roof top"

the stress and nightmares these families have to be going through - parent and child alike. The not knowing...

[soup]

8. Can't imagine - wouldn't want to

My God, Solly, what those parents must be going through.

Was trying to find some good news this morning. Made the mistake of turning on the tv and catch a bit of this report. So many different aspects of this disaster keep popping up. Staggering numbers. I had no idea.

So much for a bit of good news.

From 09/14/05:

Katrina leaves children separated from their anguished parents

BY JENNIFER EMILY

The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS - (KRT) - LaTiayanel Adamore constantly pats her mother and grabs her hand. The toddler nestles her head on her chest and sucks her thumb.

She spent more than two weeks separated from her mother, LaToya Adamore, after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Mother and daughter reunited in Dallas Tuesday after volunteers found the 3-year-old near Galveston, Texas. But Adamore's joy at finding her daughter is tempered.

Her 8-year-old son, Charles, remains missing.

"Everybody is lost. Everybody is just lost," Adamore, 27, said softly, shaking her head. "That's hard, not knowing if he's living or not."

Adamore's children are among the at least 2,576 reported missing as of Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Of those, 552 children have been reunited with their families. >more:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/12646533.htm

[Solly Mack]

14. CNN plans to do 40 hours of showing the pictures of the missing children

in hopes someone somewhere will see a child and contact the parents.
I hope shelters all over are tuning in- to help restore these families.

I'm so afraid children will be lost to the foster system as time goes by and parents can't find their child. I worry about potential abuse of these children.

No family should be ripped a part this way...just to survive..having to give your children up to the unknown ...just hoping you live to find them again - someday.

It didn't have to be this way. It didn't have to...

My heart breaks.

[SmokingJacket]

6. Is there a list of the dead?

Does anyone know if the bodies they're counting are identified or not?

Seems like after 9-11 lists came out pretty quickly, of course, much different situation...

[realFedUp]

15. Splitting up of families...as bad as the rapes, deaths

Is there any clearer example of how incompetent
this administration's been in the flooding of
New Orleans pre or post as the splitting up of
families. What makes it more abhorrent is not
knowing where children were sent.

This is 2005? 4 years after a huge restructure
of emphasis and planning of government's plans
for attacks and natural disaster?