NEW HAVEN’S SISTER-CITY ADVOCATES ISSUE APPEAL FOR DONATIONS IN WAKE OF DEADLY SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES
NEW HAVEN’S SISTER-CITY ADVOCATES ISSUE APPEAL FOR DONATIONS IN WAKE OF DEADLY SIERRA LEONE MUDSLIDES
New Haven – Members of the Freetown-New Haven Sister Cities Program are devastated by news of the latest disaster to hit Freetown, Sierra Leone. Recent mudslides there have claimed more than 300 lives, destroyed many homes, and left thousands of residents homeless.
New Haven activists have mobilized to address this latest crisis, where the city’s ‘brothers and sisters’ have just started to recover from the Ebola Crisis.
The New Haven chapter of the Freetown-Sierra Leone Sister Cities Program are planning to make a contribution to relief efforts. Those interested in supporting this humanitarian effort are encouraged to send donations to New Haven Sister Cities (memo Sierra Leone) at P.O. Box 774, New Haven, CT. 06503
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Seven-year-old Ali Mansaray must build a new life for himself after surviving the mudslides and flooding that killed nearly 500 people, including his parents, in Sierra Leone last week.
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