American National Red Cross

(Hector Emanuel/American Red Cross)

The Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Alabama was home to several hundred people who were evacuated when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast.

(Ed Porter/American Red Cross)

Seven year old Luisa Jamie Gama Rodrigues ,Park City mobile park near Davies Fla., leaves an American Red Cross ERV with her first hot meal since Hurricane Wilma struck southern Florida.

(Marty Robey/American Red Cross)

Red Cross volunteers unload supplies and prepare to start feeding the city of Westwego, Louisiana.