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Help Repair The Rockaways By Playing This Game

28/05/2013

While the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the Rockaways area of New York still suffers from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. (...)
While the spotlight has shifted elsewhere, the Rockaways area of New York still suffers from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. A Farmville-inspired game from Mother New York allows you to help by playing. When natural disaster strikes, the human compulsion to help kicks into overdrive. News reports of people without homes, everything destroyed, and families lost breed a sense of sadness and compassion, and prompt an outpouring of financial generosity and volunteerism. Then the news cycle ends--or worse, the next disaster strikes elsewhere--and the white-hot attention paid to those in need fades. The Rockaways, a long and narrow spit of land on the southern edge of the New York borough of Queens is one such place. With entire neighborhoods completely devastated by the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Rockaways became a high-activity focal point following the storm. The images of Breezy Point, where homes were razed by fire, were used to illustrate the severity of damage in New York and stimulated the charitable tendencies of those watching.Read Full Story    
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