9/7/2008 Update on Hurricane Gustav:

WE NEED YOUR HELP: The St. Vincent de Paul Council of Baton Rouge, one of Baton Rouge’s oldest charities has never seen a hurricane like Gustav. Financial contributions are desperately needed. Please click here to donate now, and consider forwarding our website address: www.svdpbr.com to others. Our relief efforts to communities affected by Gustav are listed below. However, if you are interested in the extremely important work done each day by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Baton Rouge, please click the following link for more information on our year-round core programs to assist those most in need.

In Kind Donations for Hurricane Gustav Relief: In addition to financial contributions, St. Vincent de Paul Baton Rouge has a need for the following items to continue to assist those most in need in Southern Louisiana at this time:

• Bottled Water
• Ice
• Generators

All in kind donations can be brought to: 220 St. Vincent de Paul Place, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (between 9AM – 2PM daily)

St. Vincent de Paul Baton Rouge: Hurricane Gustav Relief Services offered to those in need:

• Providing hot meals, water, and other basic necessities
• Filling Prescriptions
• Shelter Services for the Homeless
• Clothing and other personal items to those without
• Case Management Services to assist those who need assistance repairing their lives in the aftermath of a disaster.

WELCOME

Welcome to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Baton Rouge. St. Vincent de Paul has been actively striving to understand and fulfill the needs of the poor within Baton Rouge and the surrounding community since 1865.

We are here to aid the most vulnerable members of our community. Through our various programs, we reach out to those in need. We provide hot meals to those who would otherwise go hungry, warm beds to those who would have no place to sleep, medications to those who could not afford them on their own, and the mandatory uniforms that children need to attend school. By fulfilling these basic needs we do more than address the needs of the moment; we believe that we are giving a hand up, and not a hand out. At every opportunity, we move to better the lives of those we help and move them towards self-sufficiency and a better quality of life.