Friday, September 09, 2005

Feverish Pace for Aid Efforts in Overcrowded Baton Rouge
Friday, Sep. 9, 2005 Posted: 2:17:22PM EST

Churches and Christian relief groups in Baton Rouge, La., have been organizing their members, cooperating with other churches, and providing aid for an estimated 250,000 people that have come into the city escaping the now nearly empty New Orleans.

The flurry of activity has turned the city of 500,000 into a nest of activity, crowding streets with drivers who escaped the fury of Katrina before it hit neighboring New Orleans, and those who came later, having lost everything. For many in desperate situations, the atmosphere is tense.


"You just have to stand on the corner in Baton Rouge and see people driving around, and you know from the look in their eyes and the confusion, that they are not from here and they don't have any place to go," said the Rev. A.J. Heine, a deacon at St. James Episcopal Church, according to the Episcopal News Service (ENS).

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