NTEN member Second Harvest was recently featured in a New Orleans Times Picayune article for its successful efforts to distribute food and water to the people hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Read the article to find out how they managed to get supplies to places few others could.

Last September, an empty Wal-Mart in Baker, just outside of Baton Rouge, became the world's largest food bank, the biggest in the history of food banking. Through its two loading docks, a half-million pounds of food a day moved to hurricane-stricken southern Louisiana.

The food that moved through there and other Louisiana food banks came from all over the country, from the largest and smallest food processors, from donors of all kinds. A 7-year-old girl in Chicago raised $17 selling her toys. Movie star John Travolta flew in food and water on his private jet. Food drives were held in cities across the nation.

It was a miracle of charity, courtesy of the local and national network of America's Second Harvest. Second Harvest does not have the highest of profiles in disaster relief. It doesn't have big logos on its trucks, or lots of labels on the food it delivers. It just gets food and moves it to where it's most needed.

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