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Despite the group's past blunders, charity watchdogs insist the $3 billion giant, mandated by Congress to work with federal agencies to aid victims of natural disasters, has risen to Katrina's various challenges. "The Red Cross has turned over a new leaf,"says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy. Fund raising has obviously not been a problem. The organization teamed with Google, MSN and Yahoo! to channel money through their websites--and nearly half its Katrina funds arrived via the Internet. Though not as forthcoming with details of its spending as critics would like...
Hurricane Katrina has forced some 1 million people to leave their homes. Their 14-day Red Cross hotel vouchers are starting to expire, and their bank accounts are dwindling. Still, relief workers insist that the displaced masses need stable housing of their own, where they can exert some control over their destinies; they don't need to share a bathroom with your children. "Bringing people into your home doesn't give them a sense of independence or dignity," says Daniel Webster, an Episcopal reverend who has been working with the Red Cross relief operation in Utah...
...very idea of using trailers and other mobile homes to house so many evacuees has also come under attack. House Democrats have complained that the approach could "result in segregating poor people into unsustainable, artificial communities." A more sensible plan, many of them insist, would be to expand the government's Section 8 housing-voucher program. Meanwhile, President Bush's "urban homesteading" plan has received a lukewarm reception. "You're asking people who make less than $10,000 to build their own homes?" says Bruce Katz, a housing-policy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington...
Like every shopkeeper and hotel manager on the Buddhist trail, Yadav complains that the government could be doing more: although India's central and state governments insist that promoting the Buddhist trail is a priority, most of the connecting roads are poor, trains don't run on time, tourists who face problems won't get any help from the police and finding foreign exchange is often impossible...
...will have to insist that I will be my own man, and I hesitate to be put in anybody’s mold,” Roberts answered...