9/11 aid groups close or adapt as money wanes
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Leavey of Tuesday's Children, a group of children who lost a parent during the Sept. 11 attacks, is among 23 teenagers volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008. Tuesday's Children is one of hundreds of groups that sprang up after Sept. 11, offering everything from counseling to music lessons to families of the victims. The charity, and others like it, are struggling to stay afloat as donations dry up. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
NEW YORK — Terry Grace Sears knows she has still has work to do helping the families of Sept. 11 victims, seeing the proof last week on the faces of kids just beginning to open up about their parents' deaths in the terror attack. "This year, some kids were able to express things for the first time," Sears said after a summer retreat for the children. "Particularly the young boys were grieving." But Sears, executive director of a charity called Tuesday's Children, isn't sure how many more kids she will be able to help. Her agency and others like it are struggling to stay afloat as donations dry up nearly seven years after the attack. Several are closing, some are cutting budgets and others are rethinking their purpose as donors become harder to persuade. "We fight every day for money," said Sears, whose charity cut its staff by a third last year to 11 people. The groups sprang up after Sept.
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