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Old July 7th 07, 08:37 AM posted to misc.kids
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Default Extreme temperatures leave California's Homeless Children in danger

Due to record-breaking temperatures that reached in excess of 114
degress, Shasta County officials were ordered by California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger to open a cooling center for the nearly three
thousand Shasta County residents who were determined to be homeless in
a 2006 survey. This figure includes nearly one-thousand children,
which was an increase of 45 percent over the previous year, making the
most vulnerable and defenseless members of our community the fastest
growing segment of that group. Unfortunately, local officials chose to
locate this cooling center in a small town 10 miles from Redding,
which is the major population center of the county. In addition, the
primary agencies serving the homeless in Shasta County refused to
either provide homeless families with bus fare to reach this center,
or to even publicize the fact that this refuge from the intense heat
was available to a clientele which typically doesn't have access to a
televison or newspaper. The "cooling center" itself provided no
bottled water or other services. However, bottled water was being sold
by fairgrounds personnel for a dollar a bottle! More than thirty
individuals were taken to hospitals in Redding due to heat-related
emergencies. Thank you, Governor Schwarzenegger, for your gestures of
compassion, which regretably was wasted in an area where local
administrators are anything but compassionate toward the poor in
general and the homeless in particular

http://reddingloavesandfishes.com/co..._homeless.html

 




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