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Leaders with Newhouse, located in Kansas City, Missouri, say the domestic violence shelter’s air conditioning system went out on Monday when temperatures reached 92 degrees outside.
Days later, the Kansas City area continues to feel the impact of high temperatures, and the community itself stepped up to provide some relief to survivors.
Newhouse shelter air conditioning outage prompts community fundraising effort
Newhouse’s chief marketing officer Rachel Hodgson said donors helped raise the thousands of dollars needed to purchase 30 mobile A/C units for each family’s room and seven large rental A/C units for some work and common spaces…