Hurricane Katrina: mother offers housing for autistic victims and families (extract)

From Volume 3 Number 12

TOCCOPOLA, Mississippi, USA: Peg Pickering, the mother of an autistic child, has offered to provide emergency housing at Camp Yocona in Toccopola for families of children with autism and other developmental disorders who have been victims of Hurricane Katrina.
       The camp can accommodate up to 350 people in cabins that can sleep up to eight people each. Each group of four to five cabins has a bathhouse. A large commercial kitchen and dining hall is available and a volunteer will be staffing the kitchen to prepare meals, including gluten- and casein-free options for children on restricted diets … 

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