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Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:34 AM

Photo by Laurie Sisk/Garden City Telegram


Gildardo Asebedo, Garden City, gets a check-up from screener Ada Flores at United Methodist American Ministries in Garden City. Asebedo, who has diabetes, is unemployed and does not have health insurance.

POVERTY: As social service needs grow, long-term fixes more crucial

By SHAJIA AHMAD, The Garden City Telegram

Photo by Laurie Sisk/Garden City Telegram
Susanna Montoya, Garden City, holds her 7-month-old daughter, Adriana Montoya, as United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries Immunization Coordinator Trudy Ortman dispenses an oral vaccine to the infant at UMAM’s Garden City clinic.
The only things Salina residents Denise Hill and her husband, Joseph, could salvage from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were the wedding pictures high up on the walls of their first-floor New Orleans apartment, where the water and growing mildew did not reach.

“I cried every day. It hurt me so bad to know that I had to leave my home just like that and try to make do somewhere else,” Denise said. “Sometimes, you try to block things out, and it hurts so much you can’t even talk about it.”

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