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Hurricane Katrina Relief
Intel Continues Support For Katrina Relief, Recovery

Employees Help Distribute Thousands of Laptops and Other Equipment; Technology Aids Relief Effort

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16, 2005 - Technology assistance being provided by Intel Corporation and others for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts is allowing victims to get back on their feet and helping the region rebuild. Over the past two weeks, Intel and its technology partners have enabled technical solutions that are proving to be important to the relief and recovery, including donating more than 2,300 wireless laptops for American Red Cross shelters, deploying wireless broadband infrastructure such as WiMAX for first responders, and assisting the Veterans Administration with the set up of mobile hospitals along the Gulf Coast.
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Intel employee Truman Oliver prepares IBM laptops for shipment from a Red Cross center in Austin, Texas. Intel is coordinating the donation of up to 4,000 laptops for emergency shelters across the Gulf Coast.
Intel employee Beck Devenyns prepares laptops, Internet phones, and other electronic gear at the Baton Rouge River Center on Thursday Sept. 8, one of several Red Cross emergency shelters in Baton Rouge, LA.

Computer Center at the Houston Astrodome buzzes with activity. Intel has helped to set up 350 laptops there that Red Cross volunteers used to find permanent shelter for 3000 evacuees within 24 hours.
Network kit deployed to each shelter

 

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This PDF map shows how Intel and its technology partners have helped restore local connectivity to the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast.