Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog reflects on the ten lives lost in Buffalo due to racism, hate, and gun violence. And we release CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, a by-the-numbers look at the pandemic. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
Disarm hatred.
May 18
At the Tops market in Buffalo, New York on May 14, people were doing ordinary things. Picking up groceries after visiting a husband in a nursing home; buying a birthday cake for a son. We don’t often think about the ordinary people around us, about how they enrich the life of our communities. But in that viciously cruel moment at the Tops market, ten important lives were ended – people whose days were filled with support for their families and communities. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
May 20
The million deaths edition. This week, the United States surpassed one million officially recorded deaths from COVID-19. So many people died from COVID-19 that a disease that didn’t even exist three years ago has become the third leading cause of death in this country, behind heart disease and cancer. This toll does not take into account so much additional pain and hardship – isolation, depression, job loss, homelessness, drug or alcohol addiction, millions of kids falling behind in school or dropping out altogether. The list goes on and on and on. READ MORE »
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