Portland charity ends Katrina relief efforts - OregonLive.com: Breaking News Updates

Portland charity ends Katrina relief efforts - OregonLive.com: Breaking News Updates: "Portland charity ends Katrina relief efforts
Posted by The Oregonian July 25, 2007 22:35PM
Categories: Breaking News

Catholic Charities has ended Portland's longest-running large-scale program to support Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees, leaving at least 100 transplants still in need of assistance nearly two years after the hurricanes struck.

The move brings to a close the area-wide effort to aid hurricane evacuees who came to Portland for jobs, school and housing. At one point, the city and Multnomah county operated a welcome center at the old Washington-Monroe High School in Southeast Portland with the support of the Red Cross and other agencies."