Out of Sight: BOB HERBERT +
by BOB HERBERT - The New York Times
Monday Dec 18th, 2006
HERBERT: The way the poorest and most vulnerable victims of Hurricane Katrina
have been treated so far by government officials at every level has been
disgraceful.
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By BOB HERBERT
Published: December 18, 2006
Baker, La.
There are hundreds of children in the trailer camp that is run by FEMA and
known as Renaissance Village, but they wont be having much of a Christmas.
Theyre trapped here in a demoralizing, overcrowded environment with adults who
are mostly broke, jobless and at the end of their emotional tethers. Many of
the kids arent even going to school.
This is a terrible environment for children, said Anita Gentris, who lost
everything in the flood that followed Hurricane Katrina and is living in one of
the 200-square-foot travel trailers with her 10-year-old daughter and
5-year-old son. My daughter is having bad dreams. And my son, hes a very
angry child right now. He cries. He throws things.
Im desperately trying to find permanent housing.
The television cameras are mostly gone now, and the many thousands of people
from the Gulf Coast whose lives were wrecked by Katrina in the summer of 2005
have slipped from the national consciousness. But like the city of New Orleans
itself, most of them have yet to recover.
The enormity of the continuing tragedy is breathtaking. Thousands upon
thousands of people are still suffering. And yet the way the poorest and most
vulnerable victims have been treated so far by government officials at every
level has been disgraceful.
More than a third of the 1,200 people in this sprawling camp are children. Only
about half of the school-age youngsters are even registered for school; of
those, roughly half actually go to school on any given day. The authorities
cant account for the rest.
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