A Louisiana nonprofit is working to deliver wheelchairs, walkers, scooters and other such equipment to the disabled victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana Assistive Technology Access Network in Baton Rouge received a shipment from Pennsylvania Monday of more than 300 items for the disabled. Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology and the Temple University Institute on Disabilities collected the equipment.

It became obvious that there were so many people who had to leave all these things behind in the storm. We have started what we call the hurricanes Katrina and Rita Equipment Distribution Program, said Julie Nesbit, president and CEO of LATAN. We're receiving mostly recycled and some new equipment from all over the country and we're redistributing them to individuals.

Nesbit did not know the exact value of all the equipment but said it could be worth as much as $100,000. Power wheelchairs alone run between $4,000 and $5,000. LATAN will deliver the equipment to the needy because many people have no other way to get it, Nesbit said.

There are no requirements such as age or income to qualify for the equipment.LATAN has also started a database on its Web site, www.latan.org, of equipment left behind at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, which was used as a triage center during Hurricane Katrina, to try to find the owners of these items.About 150 people have called LATAN since the storm asking for assistance, Nesbit said.

It seems like we just get more every day as people are moving out of shelters. Each call is not just for one piece of equipment - it might be for four or five pieces of equipment.