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Chaplain Comforts Rescuers, Struggles for Answers

By Maya Dollarhide ● Arts & Culture ● November 19, 2001

A chaplain on ground “consecrated with the dead” touched, helped and comforted rescue workers and rescue dogs. Some workers feared that lack of physical remains, only ash, meant souls would not go to heaven. Some said God didn’t–couldn’t–exist.

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EMS Worker Now Shuns Reality TV Disaster Series

By Maya Dollarhide ● Uncategorized ● November 12, 2001

An Emergency Medical Service paramedic promoted to paperwork dashed out with face mask and oxygen to help victims of Sept. 11. Now she remembers why she became an EMS worker, and she knows people are more important than paper.

Using E-mail List, Shulock Finds 3,000 Volunteers

By Maya Dollarhide ● Uncategorized ● November 5, 2001

Her easygoing trendy life in Manhattan forever transformed on Sept. 11, an unemployed dot-com writer places her e-mail list and her technological savvy in the service of the Red Cross and other agencies providing disaster relief.

Birth Helpers to Aid Pregnant Sept. 11 Survivors

By Phoebe Nobles ● Uncategorized ● October 30, 2001

In ancient Greece, doulas were women, often slaves, who helped at childbirth, and today the multiskilled doula is increasingly in demand. While midwives focus on delivery, doulas are coaches, listeners, hand-holders, teachers about motherhood.

Red Cross Volunteer Listened to Grief, Rage

By Maya Dollarhide ● Uncategorized ● October 29, 2001

Nearly overcome with her own anxiety and sadness, graphic artist Kathryn Carey pleaded to be permitted to help in the catastrophe. She found herself running a center for trauma victims, making sure they knew where to find the help they needed.

Ironworker George Cleared Debris With Her Hands

By Maya Dollarhide ● Uncategorized ● October 22, 2001

An ironworker was called on by her union to help clear the site of the collapsed twin towers. She brought her own respirator and gas mask and dug for three days. “It could have been me,” she says.

Women at Ground Zero: Rescuers, Rebuilders

By Maya Dollarhide ● Arts & Culture ● October 14, 2001

This is the first in a series on the women toiling at Ground Zero in the ashes of the World Trade Center. The women profiled are helping the city recover and rebuild–police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, construction workers. They are us.

New York’s Female Leaders Express Sorrow, Hope

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Uncategorized ● September 14, 2001

The city’s first woman firefighter still working to save lives, the African American Manhattan borough president, the state’s U.S. senator with worldwide name recognition are united in expressing not only sadness but determination to rebuild.