Red Cross workers aid healing for Plaquemines Parish evacuees
Shelter staff Fallon and Hall from Iowa aid displaced families from Plaquemines Parish near New Orleans. Griffin and Page recall loss of home and possessions as volunteers provide physical emotional and spiritual support amid crisis.
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Brian Ray
the Gazette
Missy Hall
Cedar Rapids
Tanjanela Griffin
Plaquemines Parish
New Orleans
Red Cross
Immanuel Baptist Church
Hammond
Florida
Hall
Fallon
University of Iowa
Gulf Coast
Cemillia Griffin
Griffin
Charlotte Page
Clear Lake
Luther College
Decorah
Peter Teahen
Evacuees Find Hope as MAHP Aids Cedar Rapids Move
Evacuees from New Orleans face loss and displacement as MAHP and volunteer groups prepare about 30 to 40 apartments in Cedar Rapids Osada complex. Families like Fontenette and Milton say there is nothing to go back to, while MAHP coordinates housing, furniture, and support with 130 volunteers from churches and local groups to establish new lives.
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Fontenette
Milton
New Orleans
New
MidAmerica Housing Partnership
MAHP
Kirkwood
Iowa City
Osada
Cordell
9Th Ward
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
American Red Cross
Baton Rouge
Cedar Rapids
Mary Schoen-Clark
Iowa
Red Cross
Kembrya Smith
Bethel Ame
Mount Vernon
Schoen- Clark
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