Families who lost homes getting help
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Residents of a small western Colorado town pulled together Friday to help three families who lost their homes to a wind-driven wildfire.
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Some Northland charities and churches are asking for donations to help the victims of southern Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster, and more may do so.
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Officials yesterday sought international help to rebuild villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 566 persons dead and 546 missing in mostly poor northern agricultural regions.
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Trapped residents in Boscastle are lifted to safety from the roof of their flooded home. Three people were missing yesterday after a flash flood hit a coastal tourist area in south-west England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds ...
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The tale of seven Houston children abandoned in squalor in Nigeria has touched the hearts of many who are reaching out with offers of assistance.
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The Government's own advisory group says urgent action is needed to help vulnerable households
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Officials investigate the plight of Britons left in legal limbo after their relatives went missing in the Asian tsunami.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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People wanting to help victims of the tsunami can do so through the Red Cross. Betty Hale, executive director of the Blount County Chapter of the American Red Cross, said checks made out to the Red Cross with
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By Autumn Grooms, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 11--Local For Goodness' Sake agencies said the needs of many area families have already been met this holiday season.  "We've just been ever so lucky," said Rose Vatland, New Horizons Shelter & Women's Center legal advocate.
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Sri Lanka's child protection authorities said they needed public help to track down tsunami orphans after an initial survey showed that 995 children had lost both parents in the December disaster.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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By JOHN FALLON  A EUR4.5MILLION rescue plan was put in place yesterday to help islanders whose homes were about to fall into the sea.   Chunks of land on Inishbofin off the Co Galway coast fell into the sea in recent storms.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 13  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 18 months after Hurricane Katrina swept over the Gulf Coast, Habitat for Humanity is closing in on its initial 1,000-house goal to help low-income families displaced by the storm.
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Efforts to find two children who went missing with other family members during storms are to resume at first light.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  Eight formerly homeless families were supposed to move into a newly renovated building on Joshua Street in Battery Park. Instead, all of the families who lived in the blocks around the building are looking for homes themselves.