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...policy of a balanced approach is getting drowned out: "Evangelical churches are enjoying the crisis we are going through and taking advantage of it to promote abstinence-only programs," she says. Some also link the shift in Kampala to the Bush Administration's President's Emergency Plan for aids Relief (pepfar), which, critics say, has shifted the emphasis toward abstinence only. "There is no question in my mind that the condom crisis is being driven and exacerbated by pepfar and by the extreme policies of the U.S.," said aids envoy Lewis. "You couldn't come up with a more bizarre...
Every single purchase during a natural-disaster-relief operation is billed to a four-digit federal code. In accounting terms, Hurricane Charley was known as 1539 and 1543. Ivan had nine codes, starting with 1548, one for each state affected by the emergency. Hurricane Katrina is such a vast and expensive undertaking that it has been assigned 45 separate codes: 1602 for Florida, 1603 for Louisiana, 1604 for Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government...
...receipts for such expenses during the first couple of weeks of Katrina relief have been collected. The tab so far: $9.8 billion, including $1.8 billion for the reimbursement of lodging expenses and $1.3 billion on trailers and temporary homes. And that is just the beginning. Shortly after Labor Day, the Bush Administration asked Congress to sign off on an additional $51.8 billion--roughly what the U.S. spends in Iraq each year. Unlike the Persian Gulf, though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size...
...interview prior to the meeting, he said that the original motivation for the campaign was to unite campus organizations with a common goal. The organizers decided to incorporate hurricane relief into the alliance’s wider anti-poverty efforts after Hurricane Katrina struck, he explained...
...relief and recovery effort is still slow in coming, but not for lack of volunteers. Two firefighters from Ohio were sent by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency the day after the storm with dogs that can locate humans buried in a pile of rubble had to sit for two critical days in Gulfport because the feds said their paperwork was not in order. The men found a team of firemen on their own and started working anyway even though the official permissions still haven't come through two weeks later. They expect to be going through the debris for months...