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Home > Latest News > World Vision Donors Help Raise $12 Million to Rebuild Lives U.S. Gulf Coast: World Vision Donors Help Raise $12 Million to Rebuild Lives
Through the American Families Assistance Fund, World Vision has:
World Vision is also continuing to work with churches to distribute Bibles to people who request or want them. Rebuilding Churches World Vision is now engaged in the Revitalization Campaign phase of its Gulf Coast Hurricane Response plan. The goal of the current phase, which began in January 2006, is to rebuild and renew churches and community-based organizations damaged by the hurricanes. 2 Million Displaced Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that 2 million people were displaced by Katrina and Rita. Hurricane Katrina's death toll is now at about 1,200 — of these, 1,000 casualties were in Louisiana and 200 in Mississippi. Deaths indirectly related to the hurricane raise the toll to 1,336. Meanwhile, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists 254 children as still missing following Katrina and Rita. An estimated 330,000 people were displaced from New Orleans because of Katrina's destruction and about 2,500 remain missing. Estimates are that some 150,000 residents have returned to New Orleans; the current population is straining the city's resources. Three of 117 public schools have reopened and electricity is only partially available in eight postal zones. |  | 1-888-511-6548 : P.O. Box 9716 World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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