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Early this past summer, a group of teenagers from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin, went on a public service trip to Neodesha, Kansas, where they had volunteered to repair the houses of low-income residents. After their efforts in Kansas, they returned to Wisconsin, satisfied that the fruits of their labors would last for years.
Within weeks, however, Neodesha--and much of the rest of Kansas--was covered by floodwaters. One hundred twenty-one homes in the town of 3,000 were severely damaged.
"It's weird because we were just there two weeks before this happened," Erin Reilly, 15, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Erin and her sister, Kayla, 16, among a group of St. Elizabeth teens, decided to organize a fundraiser to help the residents of Neodesha.
The high schoolers publicized the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Wisconsin teens assist.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(helping flood...