audio by title women in biloxi lead rebuilding efforts

Women in Biloxi Lead Rebuilding Efforts

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  • produced by Sharon Hanshaw & Cass Woods
  • in 2008

With little government assistance, too many bureaucratic obstacles to jump through, and an insurance industry that found outs every step of the way, women from all over the gulf coast had to come together to help those in need. One group of women created "Coastal Women for Change" to fill the huge void in Biloxi, Mississippi. They began providing vital services like childcare and information that residents desperately needed but were not receiving such as their land rights and programs available to them for relief. Coastal Women for Change reporters Sharon Hanshaw and Cass Woods bring us this story.

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