It is one of many fund-raisers and appeals to help us complete this project.

It will go to agencies like ours. We help children and families in need, now for Katrina victims too.

Some just don't have any other place to be. It's a beginning, a stepping stone to building skills to survive.

People have been coming out of the woodwork to help us. It's been absolutely amazing. The way people have cared for us is just incredible. It makes you feel so good, and we're so very thankful.

We have had inquiries from different organizations that want to help as far as school supplies. Teachers are in the process of compiling a list of needs. We're just working to take inventory right now, and we're also looking at the needs of our students. You know a lot of them had their supplies at the school.

The Red Cross has been so wonderful to us.