As a young minister and then a bishop in Los Angeles, Bishop Brookins helped start and was president of the United Civil Rights Council, an umbrella organization of 75 groups, which helped the black community recover from the Watts riots in 1965.
— A somber President Obama paid tribute on Thursday to firefighters killed in a spectacular explosion that devastated a small Texas town last week, praising their courage and vowing to help their community recover from a "time of unimaginable adversity".
"I promised you back then if I was elected, I would do everything I could to help this community recover, and that's why I'm back here today," said Obama as he pushed the American Recovery Act, an $800bn stimulus plan he hoped would get America back to work.
He and the rest of his team, the beloved Crimson Tide, helped their community recover.
SES workers worked to help the community recover, tarping damaged roofs and clearing debris from roads and around houses where it limited access from residents.
Emiratis have watched this community recover and rebuild from the disaster last year, and we are honored to help Mercy deliver an enhanced level of medical care to children".
They were helped by the Joplin Chamber of Commerce, which made an aggressive push to help the city's business community recover immediately following the disaster and opened a business recovery center within three days of the tornado.
But they are not alone in coping – they are helping each other, and their community, recover, through an age-old social institution: the community conversation.
This project, run by the Tarayana Foundation, has developed skills and encouraged a self-help ethos that has successfully helped the community recover and prosper.
We need to have the whole community recover, to go on with their lives as much as possible," says Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's Senior Adviser for Children in Armed Conflicts.
