WP: Volunteers shoulder Katrina rebuilding - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

WP: Volunteers shoulder Katrina rebuilding - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com:

"In this small rural community, as in much of the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast, this kind of motley charity effort accounts for the vast bulk of what halting progress has been made in the immense task of rebuilding.

While the national debate over the recovery has focused on the billions expected in federal aid and insurance, those sources have so far provided little for places such as Pearlington, and charity efforts have constituted more than 80 percent of the home rebuilding completed so far, local and charity officials said.

Fewer than one in five families here are back in their homes, but nearly all of them have relied to some extent on charity groups. "