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Article: Bay State residents give $1.4m for Kosovars
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 1999
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The smallest donation was 53 cents from a 7-year-old girl. The
largest, $48,000 from a church drive.
Donations that poured into American Red Cross chapters across
Massachusetts over the past three months to aid Kosovar refugees
total $1.4 million, making the state the fifth most-generous
contributor nationally to the relief effort.
"There has been an outpouring from people who want to help anyway
they can," said Heather Aiello, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts
Bay chapter of American Red Cross. "It's been incredible."
Aiello noted that even with a peace accord signed, the
humanitarian relief efforts will continue for months as Kosovar