Houston ? Jamie Foxx, who is working with the NAACP on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, says celebrities should get giving when the going gets tough.

“The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you’re real,” Foxx said at an NAACP event after a recent visit to the Reliant Astrodome, where cots have been set up for victims of the hurricane.

Venus Junius, who was forced from her New Orleans home, said visits by celebrities such as Foxx, Oprah Winfrey and Jada Pinkett Smith have been nice “because right now we need everybody we can get.”