Original Post: https://features.weather.com A year after Hurricane Maria destroyed Vimarie Cardona’s home in Puerto Rico, she and two daughters faced homelessness in Central Florida. The federal program paying for their stay in a hotel near Orlando was set to end. Cardona’s full-time job, making beds at...
Original Post: https://www.pbs.org Vimarie Cardona and her three children have spent the past 10 months living in a hotel room paid for by the federal government, after evacuating to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria damaged the family’s home last year. But now, on...
Original Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria upended Jennyfer Ortiz’s life. The single mother fled Puerto Rico with her two children after their house in the mountain town of Orocovis lost power. They have been using a government-funded program to pay for a...
Original Post www.nytimes.com MIAMI — Almost a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, more than 1,000 families who lost their homes remain in hotel rooms paid for by the government. Thursday, a judge’s ruling gave them two more weeks before that assistance runs out, though...
Kissimmee, Florida (CNN)With no running water, no power and no school for her kids, Carmen "Millie" Santiago fled Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean last fall. Like thousands of evacuees, she landed here in central Florida. And, like hundreds, she's still stuck in...
Por Tamara Mino Pocos damnificados que salieron huyendo de sus hogares luego de que el huracán María azotara Puerto Rico han podido encontrar una vivienda digna y adecuada en Orlando pues siguen viviendo en hoteles y moteles con el dinero que les provee la Agencia Federal...
After arriving in Orlando from Puerto Rico, 29-year-old Juan Carlos Jurado faced the challenge of getting enough money to rent an apartment in east Orlando, where he moved Feb. 15, along with his pregnant wife and three children. But he had yet to furnish their new...
Es parte de una iniciativa de la organización no gubernamental Latino Leadership y la empresa puertorriqueña Global Mattress. El donativo fue parte de una iniciativa de la organización no gubernamental Latino Leadership y la empresa puertorriqueña Global Mattress...
Juan Carlos Jurado y Jinny Santos junto a sus hijos en durante la entrega de los cuatro colchones que les servirán para amueblar su apartamento. Varias familias recogieron sus colchones en el 3273 Vineland Rd. Kissimmee (Roxana de la Riva, Especial para El Sentinel)...
