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Despite Fire, Children's Aid Society's Food Operations Continue
to Operate Normally, Thanks to IMAC |
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (September 08, 1999) - Last February fire
seriously damaged the main administration and dining building of
the Children's Aid Society on Cleveland's near West Side.
Suddenly, 36 children and staff members were without a dining hall
and kitchen in the dead of winter. |
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for long. Informed of the disaster, International Management
Assistance Corp's (IMAC) crisis-response team sprang into action.
Within 24 hours the company provided a temporary kitchen, housed
in a trailer, and refrigeration trucks. It trucked in supplies
that included freezers, blenders, pots, pans, silverware, coolers,
even salt and peppershakers, as well as power generation
equipment. And it brought food-preparation specialists.
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"We
were really in a bind, facing a traumatic, devastating problem,"
said Mary Lou Slife, associate director of the 167-institution,
10427 Detroit Ave. |
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"Thanks to IMAC, we could begin to operate almost seamlessly. The
way its staff integrated with ours was unbelievable." |
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Once
up and running, the temporary kitchen began serving 125 meals
daily to children and staff members on the 10-acre campus. Even
"campus day" - a time for families and friends to visit the
grounds - could be held last spring because, Slife said, IMAC's
resources and kitchen staff made it possible to cook 175 pounds of
chicken, 60 pounds of potato salad and 10 gallons of baked beans. |
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"Despite the fire and our working from temporary conditions, it
was important that we kept that tradition for the children," she
said. |
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IMAC's
on-site team is expected to remain at the Society until the spring
when the administration building is completely repaired. |
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The
Children's Aid Society was founded in 1832 as an orphanage to
provide shelter and education to homeless children. |
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