Project: Bring Miracle (Please Give)
This is almost hard to read. No family, I mean no family should have to endure this much bad luck in a lifetime, much less just a couple years.
Joseph’s home of more than a decade destroyed for the second time in two years. Hurricane Katrina swallowed up her home with ten feet of water and then, this past weekend, a fire finished it off.
Joseph, a mother of six, raced down from her temporary residence in Baton Rouge to find her home destroyed by fire. "The firefighters found a picture of my grandmother and a picture of my youngest daughter and that’s all they found," Joseph said.
Investigators said the fire was started with a stolen car, which had been stripped and dumped in Joseph’s driveway before being lit on fire. The flames spread to her nearby home, which she had been rebuilding.
Joseph said she’d managed to repair 80 percent of her home through Road Home money. She had plans to turn on the electricity there for the first time since Katrina on Monday.
But it was not to be.
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Part of the problem, according to neighbors, was no one saw anything due to lack of streetlights in an area struggling to rebuild.
But there is hope for the Joseph family. A number of medical students at Tulane have started a website called Project: Bring Miracle Hope. From the Website:
On a fresh late-summer’s afternoon of the 22nd of September, 2007, Miracle Lewis came down to New Orleans to see her newly restored room. Miracle’s family was rebuilding the home after the house had been filled with ten feet of water and damaged by a massive tree. After being forced out by the storm to Port Allen, LA, and on to Houston, TX, her family had made it a little closer to their goal of returning to their roots by finding temporary-stay housing in Baton Rouge. The gleeful approval in Miracle’s eyes after seeing her room on this day, however, was truly a milestone on the soon-to-be-realized path of bringing the family back home.
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After losing their home originally in Hurricane Katrina the Joseph family put $138,000 which they received from a Road Home grant towards rebuilding their home and life. This investment was tragically lost in the fire, and unfortunately the maximum they can receive from their insurance to rebuild their home a second time is $12,000. As a consequence, the Joseph family will not have the means to rebuild their house.
If you can spare just a couple bucks I think this might be a pretty worthy cause.
