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Private initiative outperforms FEMA.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(Brief Article)

The New American

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Lily Duke is a resident of Algiers, a neighborhood of New Orleans across the Mississippi from the best-known parts of the city. She evacuated just before Hurricane Katrina struck, and then she was prevented from returning home after the storm. To get back home, she signed up as an aid worker with the Church of Christ and was allowed to drive into her neighborhood with a truckload of food.

Duke set up a distribution center in the parking lot of Mardi Gras World, a popular tourist attraction where floats for the city's annual parade are built. While Lily was busily giving away food and other items to storm victims, more supplies kept arriving from local churches and food banks, and the operation grew larger! Lily then opened branch distribution centers in the ravaged Ninth ...

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