Word: sheltering
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...once predominantly Cuban exile enclave adjoining Miami that today has a growing non-Cuban Latino population, seemed a microcosm of Amandi's findings today. Mireya Concepcion, 57, a Cuban-born cosmetologist who fled Castro's revolution in 1969, walked out of the polling station at the Salvation Army shelter in Hialeah late this afternoon and made it clear she'd voted for McCain. "I worry that Obama is a communist," she said. "I prefer the more direct way McCain and the Republicans handle Cuba." At the same time, Concepcion conceded that her 31-year-old daughter voted for Obama...
...immediate concern was for the tens of thousands of refugees who fled the rebels' march to Goma, capital of the North Kivu province. The fighting dissipated Wednesday and the refugees are now heading home, desperate for food and shelter. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees, the world organization's refugee agency, said it was investigating reports that rebels had destroyed camps housing some 50,000 internally displaced people in the town of Rutshuru, about 50 miles north of Goma. "Hundreds of thousands of people who have already suffered far too much are in danger and in desperate need...
...only conceived so that his mother could prove to her partner that she was not sterile. According to Fritzl's account, she neglected him and subjected him to traumatic experiences like abandonment. During World War II bombing raids, for example, Fritzl's mother would retreat to an air-raid shelter for safety, leaving Fritzl alone in the family home...
...Fritzl also told Kastner that he would punish his imprisoned family by turning off the cellar lights (the shelter was windowless) or withholding food for several days. He taunted his children with photographs of other kids playing outside in the sun. (Read a TIME story on the Fritzl case...
...power of MRC volunteers. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, MRC volunteers nurtured thousands of weary evacuees seeking refuge many miles from home in Texas, Mississippi, Massachusetts and other states. During the 2007 Southern California wildfires, MRC personnel cared for the exhausted at more than 15 shelters across the affected region. Recent Hurricanes Gustav and Ike mobilized MRC volunteers to support shelter operations and provide first aid in nearly a dozen states in the South. Nationwide, MRC volunteers have not only conducted pandemic influenza trainings but also now routinely staff annual flu vaccination clinics that would otherwise lack...