Rebuilding the Gulf Coast for the Children This hurricane season, Save the Children is one of few organizations working to prepare and protect children in the Gulf Coast Above, Mark Shriver meets with a young evacuee in Baton Rouge, La.   July is the second month of the 2006 hurricane season and Save the Children is already helping families along the Gulf Coast protect and prepare children for another possible disaster. “The United States has never made the needs of children a priority of its disaster management system, or involved child protection experts from domestic and international organizations in the emergency planning process,” said Mark Shriver, Save the Children’s Vice President and Manager of U.S. Programs. “One lesson learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is that the unique needs of children in crisis situations must be addressed in future national emergency response plans.” Read more One Year Later - Helping Children Cope in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Read more Video See how Firemen are helping children in the Gulf Coast Summer Camps & More Bring Hope to Gulf Coast Backpacks filled with school and emergency supplies are currently being handed out at summer camps to prepare children for upcoming storms.  This summer, some new and promising Save the Children programs are being introduced to the Gulf Coast to help children recover from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In the aftermath of the storms, Save the Children quickly put its international expertise in the field of child protection and psychosocial assistance to use in support of thousands of displaced and evacuated children in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Read more Other Stories: Katrina and Rita: What Can the United States Learn from International Experiences with Education in Displacement? as printed in Harvard Educational Review, Winter 2005 Emergency Child Care in Mississippi Gets Parents Back to Work Past Stories of the Gulf Coast Get more details on Save the Children programs in the Gulf Coast For more information about our work in the United States, click here. For more information about our emergency response work around the world, click here.