Raindrop Turkish House hosted Meeting Our Neighbors dinner where people from neighborhood were present. Ali R Candir, Executive Director of Raindrop, made a presentation about the organization and talked about how important working together with our neighbors. He commented that this center is open for everyone and neighbors can use the facility for cultural, educational and social purposes such as meetings, birthday parties, gatherings, etc.

Ms. Elaine Gaskamp, President of Glennshire Neighborhood Association,

Institute of Interfaith Dialog in collaboration with Raindrop Turkish House welcomed the Houston FBI department at a Ramadan dinner at Turquoise center. The participants of the dinner from FBI enjoyed the delicious Turkish cuisine along with the representatives of several Turkish-American organizations.

Kemal Oksuz, the executive director of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog, mentioned how important are community outreaching and they are here to serve to the community by organizing dialog and friendship activities.

Dear Community Members, 

     City of Houston asks your help to clean up our neighborhoods, below you will find the newsletter sent by CitizensNet on September 17, 2008.For a cleaner and safer environment, it's time to work together.

      Houstonians need water and ice more than anything now... Many people still is without electricity... Clean potable water and ice for cooling the food are the essential supplies now. Today, Harris County announced 17 POD's (point of distribution) where people can get water, ice and some canned food.(September 16, 2008, Houston, TX)

      Here you will find some useful information about what you should do after the hurricane passed.Hurricane Ike may have passed, but the disaster is far from over. "Everyone in the path of Ike must remain vigilant throughout the recovery process," said Federal Coordinating Officer Sandy Coachman of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

    Dear Houstonians, Hurricane Ike is moving towards Texas coast with strenthening on warm waters of Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane is expected to landfall along the central to upper Texas coast by as early as late Friday night as a Category 2 or Category 3 hurricane. Models are honing in on a landfall location from the Freeport-Lake Jackson area to Galveston, Texas.

   Sevgili Houston sakinleri, hepimizin bildiği üzere, Gustav kasırgası Houston ve civarında herhangibir hasara sebep olmadan şiddeti azalmış ve bu felaket atlatılmıştı. Ancak Ike kasırgası şu anda Meksika körfezinde ve Corpus Christi'den başlayıp Galveston'a doğru uzanan kıyı şeridine doğru hızla ilerliyor.