**FEMA should hire Walmart, Home Depot and Lowes to handle the acquistion of emergency food/water/materials and the transportation of these needed items to disaster areas.
Then, FEMA can hire the Salvation Army to distribute what is needed to the needy**
Excellent suggestions! I would add 'and Catholic Charities' to the Salvation Army, however.
Catholic Charities do a great job. Many of our Episcopal priests sought out priests who lost their churches and many if not most members lost their homes.
Our priest has been working with a priest in coastal Alabama. His church was destroyed to the foundation and most of the members of his church lost their homes. We have raised about 25k for this priest to use to help his members.
We are starting to send gift cards from Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart and Target for Thanksgiving, the Holidays and whatever. We get the gift cards and drop them off at our church office. They are then mailed to the priest (we are renting a trailer for him as his church office). Then he distributes the cards to his parish members as needed.
Up to now we have sent blankets, clothes and other items along with the cash. A volunteer nurse, not from our area, worked in this town and with this priest. Last Sunday she
visited our church to personally thank us for what we have done.