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Article: Hurricane's Legacy: "A Year of Hunger and Suffering for Haiti's Poor".(Hurricane George )(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- November 20, 1998
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Haitian Bishops Pleads for Help on Behalf of the Poor -- "Food For The Poor" Solicits Support from American Catholics
Few Haitian families can forget the night Hurricane George ripped through their lives. It was a night in which many lost children, husbands, wives and parents. For some, it was also the night their future died.
"Try to imagine facing the next dawn knowing that your home is gone, your possessions are gone, your tools and opportunity for employment have been washed away, your crops and livestock are destroyed and you have little or no hope of recovering any of your losses. This has been the plight of our poor. The night of the hurricane has ...