Vocabulary
Persons who agree to do work without being paid for it
Who are VOLUNTEERS?
What agency is designed to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that, as a Nation, we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
FEMA
This organization was formed more than 100 years ago to help people in need all over the world, especially when natural disasters occur.
What is The American Red Cross?
Not able to do a everyday activity such as walking in the same way as most people do
The city where Ruby Bridges lived and went to school.
Where is New Orleans, Louisiana?
What is the Disabled in Action?
a civil rights organization, based in New York City, committed to ending discrimination against people with disabilities through litigation and demonstrations
When workers stop working to get something they want, such as better pay
What is STRIKE?
Why was the YMCA created?
In response to unhealthy social conditions arising in the big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution
A club, society, or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose.
What is a union
Events such as flood or earthquake that cause great harm
What are NATURAL DISASTERS?
Where was the American Red Cross founded?
Washington, D.C.
Another group founded over 100 years ago for the purpose of helping animals. After Hurricane Katrina, this organization's volunteers rescued 8,500 animals.
What is the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)?
When people stop buying something from a certain business
What is BOYCOTT?
This city is located on very low ground protected from a large nearby lake by levees, but some levees broke after Hurricane Katrina causing massive flooding.
Where is New Orleans?
After Hurricane Katrina, kids helped out too, including three sisters from Maryland who started this project which, with the help of people in 40 states, collected over 50,000 backpacks for kids affected by the natural disaster.
What was Project Backpack?