Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When these time limits hit, Massachusetts will see increased suffering among its poor parents and children. Without their welfare benefits, many parents will not be able to provide their children with the basic necessities of food and shelter. Although lots of parents will find jobs--and lots already have--not all are equipped to do so. Many lack education or English skills; some have chronically ill children that need extra care; still others are recovering from domestic violence situations...
Douglas was also instrumental in the University Lutheran Shelter, "Uni Lu," one of her major term-time responsibilities...
...fire, targeting suspected Kosovo Liberation Army bases in a village. Then armored infantry rolls in to take over the town. Finally foot soldiers arrive, looting and burning, to strike terror among ethnic-Albanian villagers. Despite the first snows in the mountains, hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Some find shelter with relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens of thousands are still in the remote hills and forests of the embattled province, where they huddle in rough outdoor camps. During the past three months, 26,000 Yugoslav soldiers and security police, heavy guns roaring and combat helicopters whizzing...
...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
...They evacuated the area, my mom traveled to a shelter yesterday," she said. "I have to hope for the best for my family. I'm even more powerless because I am so far away...