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Global Empowerment Mission Provides Housing Assistance for Surfside Victims Sharon Schechter escaped the South Florida condominium tower collapse with just the nightclothes she was wearing, so she cried shortly after when the Global Empowerment Mission gave her an electric toothbrush, a phone charger and a $500 gift card to buy essentials. Now GEM, other charities and businesses announced Wednesday that they will be paying the first and last months rent and security deposit at new apartments for Schechter and about 30 other individuals and families displaced by the June 24 tragedy in Surfside...
Charities Providing Housing Assistance to Surfside Collapse Survivors GEM, a Florida-based charity that responds to disasters around the world, has raised $372,000 with its partners and distributed donated goods to the Surfside collapse survivors. By Terry Spencer • Updated on July 28, 2021 at 7:45 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Sharon Schechter escaped the South Florida condominium tower collapse with just the nightclothes she was wearing, so she cried shortly after when the Global Empowerment Mission gave her an electric toothbrush, a phone charger and a $500 gift card to buy e...
Inside the Tumultuous Years Before the Florida Condo Collapse Patricia Mazzei, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Alexandra E. Petri and Stephanie Saul © Scott McIntyre for The New York Times Chris Jeffers placed flowers on a barricade fence that has become a makeshift memorial near the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse site in Surfside, Fla. SURFSIDE, Fla. — Elena Blasser kept her two-bedroom, two-bath condo in the Champlain Towers South as a beachside gathering place for family reunions. She adored the ocean and the small town of Surfside, Fla...
Who are the survivors of the Surfside building collapse? Sharon Schechter is one of the 134 people accounted for after 55 of the 136 units of the Champlain Tower came crumbling down to the ground. Schechter, the owner of a Medicare Insurance Business left her house with no documents whatsoever but she made it out alive and she brought along her dog too. “I was one of two I think that survived on my floor,” Schechter said. The 60-year-old lived at 8777 Collins Ave and was woken up by "a little unusual" noise. In the next couple of minutes of waking up, she felt the building shake. Schec...