Sep 15th, 2005 · President Bush will address the nation Thursday night from New Orleans, using his prime-time speech to announce plans to rebuild flooded and hurricane-ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast. Bush will also stop in Mississippi on his fourth visit to the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina hit the region 17 days ago.
Sep 5th, 2005 · President Bush flew from Washington, D.C., to again visit the coastal areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. An estimated 500,000 people have been displaced and left homeless by the storm.
Sep 2nd, 2005 · President Bush leaves Friday morning for a daylong tour of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. He will review the damage in Mobile and Biloxi on the ground and then make an aerial inspection of New Orleans and the surrounding area.
Jul 28th, 2005 · In 1940, Charles Todd and Robert Sonkin were hired by the Library of Congress to travel around California and record the lives, stories and music of Dust Bowl refugees. They traveled around the state’s central valley, lugging a 50-pound recording machine. The two men created an oral history of refugees from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas who had left their draught and depression-ravaged homelands to look for jobs in the west.
Jun 26th, 2005 · Francis Hammond, Americare's director of operations in Sri Lanka, talks to Liane Hansen about the situation in Sri Lanka six months after the tsunami ravaged the island nation.
Mar 24th, 2005 · Iraq's cell-phone provider, Iraqna, is trying to build a network in the war-ravaged country despite a failing infrastructure and the ongoing insurgency.
Jan 10th, 2005 · NPR's Tony Cox speaks with CNN correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault, reporting from the network's Johannesberg, South Africa bureau, about the impact of the announcement by former president Nelson Mandela that his son has died of AIDS-related complications. South Africa is ravaged by AIDS, and the announcement could have a huge impact in a nation where families feel ostracized for admitting a family member is stricken with the immune system disease.
Oct 9th, 2004 · Tropical Storm Jeanne's September onslaught left nearly 2,000 dead in Haitian mudslides. The root cause is a loss of forest land. Lack of foliage has led to water shortages and new desert, despite abundant rainfall. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports.