To Donate or send messages, please access the Remembering,
a place to remember and celebrate the lives of the men, women and children who were lost as a result of the events of September 11, 2001.
Links to charities and other updated relief information can also be found at the bottom of the page.
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President Bush urges the nation's children to contribute a dollar to a fund to provide food and medicine for the children of Afghanistan.
The contributions should be mailed to America's Fund for Afghan Children, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 20509-1600.
The Salvation Army is accepting monetary donations. Make
checks payable to the Salvation
Army and send to P.O. Box 2095,
Oklahoma City, OK 73101. Designate "Sept. 11 disaster relief." To donate by credit card, call 840-0735.
Heartland Care Network has
established a disaster relief fund.
Send checks or money orders to
Heartland Care Network Disaster
Relief Fund, Vision Management
LLC, 3525 NW 23, Oklahoma City,
OK 73107. Cash will be accepted
at any of the company's 23 locations. Donations will be presented
to the American Red Cross.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe M. Allbaugh has asked for donations of
money.
Donations for victims of the World
Trade Center attack and their families can be sent to: New York State
World Trade Center Relief Fund,
P.O. Box 5028, Albany, NY 12205.
To make contributions, send checks
to: World Trade Center/Pentagon
Fund, 8441 W Bowles Ave., Suite
200, Littleton, CO 80123.
Because of the response of
blood donors, New York is well supplied. The Oklahoma Blood Institute
asks those who have not donated
blood to consider donating this
month or in early November. If you
are with a company or a church
planning a blood drive, please donate then. The institute needs
plasma and platelets. The sites are
1001 Lincoln Blvd., 5105 N Portland
Ave., 1139 SW 59, 3434 S Boulevard in Edmond and 1060 S Douglas Blvd. in Midwest City.
The American Red Cross, 601
NE 6, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, is
accepting monetary donations. Call
(800) HELP-NOW. The main number for the local Red Cross chapter
is 232-7121. Contributions can be
made to any Red Cross chapter.
Please specify events of Sept. 11.
For those interested in donating
blood, call (800) GIVE-LIFE. Volunteers also are needed, particularly
those with Red Cross training.
Catholic Charities, 1501
Classen Blvd., is offering counseling.
Call 524-0969.
The state Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services' trauma hot line is available at
(800) 522-9054.
UMB banks are accepting donations at four metro area locations:
Stockyards
City, Agnew and Exchange avenues; downtown, Robinson and Park avenues;
Quail Plaza, Hefner and May Avenue; and NW 63 and N Broadway.
"Finding Our Way: Living With
Dying in America," a series of articles distributed by Knight Ridder/
Tribune News Service, helping
Americans cope is offered in the
Lifestyle section at NewsOK.com.
For more information on helping victims of the U.S. attacks, visit Helping.org
In gratitude, friendship and memory of New York City Urban
Search and Rescue Chief Ray Downey, a group in New York is
offering assistance to Oklahomans participating in search and rescue.
Virginia Kotimsky, who is from El Reno and still has ties to the state,
can be reached at (212) 728-8143. Ask for Cathy (days), Virginia
(evenings) and Adele (nights). Or e-mail vkotimsky@willkie.com or
cmccandless@willkie.com.
AmeriCares, an international disaster relief organization, has created a fund to help victims. Donors can call 1-800-486-4357 or log
onto www.americares.org to contribute to the "Aid for Terrorist Attack
Victims."
To send cards and letters to the firefighters and rescue workers in New York:
Uniformed Firefighters Association, 204 E 23rd, NY,NY 10010
