Quotes about evacuee (9 Quotes)


    I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.


    Since the hurricane, the size of the choir has doubled workers are showing up who had not been in church for weeks and tired volunteers are rejoicing in the feeling that the Holy Spirit is at work both in the church and in the lives of those they serve. The Methodists showed up Saturday night to relieve the tired Baptists from their kitchen duties as they served their Catholic and Presbyterian evacuee friends.

    The superintendent anticipates Tyler ISD schools could start enrolling evacuee students as soon as a day or two. We want to be aggressive on this. Children need to be in school at this time of year, ... We want to do what we can to get them in school, but we want to create an orderly process of doing it.

    I thought it wouldn't hurt to have somebody else's advice, ... The only agenda I have is catching Reggie and I thought this was an opportunity to give this evacuee something to do.


    The same agencies that are here for people in SD on a daily basis are there now for the evacuees who have become part of the community. I would hesitate to use the word 'evacuee' six months later.

    We have not banned the word 'refugee,' ... We have used it along with 'evacuee,' 'survivor,' 'displaced' and various other terms that fit what our reporters are seeing on the ground. Webster's defines a refugee as a person fleeing 'home or country' in search of refuge, and it certainly does justice to the suffering legions driven from their homes by Katrina.


    Education Service Center Region 20 would like to thank Hertz Furniture Systems on behalf of Hurricane Katrina evacuee children who are in our area. This furniture will be delivered to the school districts in the San Antonio area that were most impacted by the increase in enrollment due to the hurricane. Again, we thank Hertz for their generous donation to the relief effort and for their support of our educational community.



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