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For the past three days I’ve been making the drive down Superior and St. Clair avenues to the community computer center set up in the Cleveland Convention Center by Bill Callahan and others to help refugees from Hurrican Katrina. What we did mostly was to help people with the FEMA registration process. Bill’s post on the center is great.
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What a great thing to do! Volunteers like you are making a big difference for people.
Shalom Terry,
It felt really good being able to do something other than send money. I know money is important, but it’s also impersonal. I worked with only maybe a dozen refugess over the three days, but when I was able to help them through the process, I made a connection.
B’shalom,
Jeff
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