Hurricane Hero Award March 15th, 2006
The Cajun Clickers Computer Club and I were honored on November 11, 2005 as “Hurricane Heroes” by the Excalibur Club in Baton Rouge.
During September, I started and lead the Katrina Pet Rescue Project of the Cajun Clickers Computer Club.
We were working as volunteers for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Office of Animal Health Services (also known as the “State Vet’s Office”).
From September 6th through September 22nd, I had 80 volunteers who spent an estimated total of 1,400 man-hours inputting phone logs and emails into a massive spreadsheet for the State. We were tracking reports of lost animals, animals to be rescued, offers to volunteer, offers to send goods and offers to foster animals.
We input over 7000 records into the spreadsheet, which was used by the Louisiana SPCA to coordinate the actual rescues..
Each morning, I picked up input data at least once from the State Vet’s Office. Each night, I consolidated the spreadsheets input by each of that day’s volunteers into the master spreadsheet and emailed it to the Louisiana SPCA’s coordinator, the Humane Society of the United States’ coordinator and the Louisiana State Vet’s office.
Read more about our Katrina Pet Rescue Project