This note appeared just a few minutes ago on ECOLOG-L, a professional ecology
listserver identical to HP3000-L. I thought that this was a sufficiently good
enough idea to repeat it here.
Who knows, there may be little kids in the hurricane-striken Mississippi area
that will grow up to be Adager customers in 10 to 20 years as a result of
your efforts.
Wirt Atmar
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From Mississippi Sea Grant
"*A way to help school children displaced in Katrina's wake
*There is a great need for school supplies in this area. Some students
have lost everything and many school districts have taken in hundreds of
additional students.
We've thought of something easy and inexpensive that folks could do in
the Sea Grant community that will help displaced school children down
here. We know that a lot of people have extra backpacks and message bags
from various conferences they've been to, and most of them are probably
sitting in your closets. There may even be boxes of leftover bags, pens,
pads, etc. at places where the conferences took place. We know people are
burning to help in some way, and here's an inexpensive but vitally needed
way for you to help.
*Ship us your extra book bags, backpacks, message bags, pens, etc. left
from past conferences, and we'll distribute them from here*. There are
displaced children in the schools here in Oxford and in every small town
in the state that is above the area of the worst damage, and these small
towns are naturally not getting the help and attention that is going to
the areas of terrible destruction. They're falling thru the cracks,
trying to help, but running their own resources dry trying to help
evacuees. They are in desperate need of many things. Every little bit
helps.
We have an empty office that we will be using to collect the supplies.
We will load the bags full of supplies and distribute them to displaced
students and school districts throughout the state in the coming weeks
and months. We are focusing on the messenger bags from conferences, because
I think that middle school and high school students will be
happier with a more mature bag.
*We are not asking for programs to purchase supplies*. We simply would
like to redistribute things that your programs and staff no longer have
any use for. If you want to send other supplies, we won't turn anything
away. If you do send supplies, please try to stick to the following
items:
notebooks (spiral bound or three-hole, any size)
notebook paper (either wide or narrow ruled)
construction paper
crayons (any size box)
tablets (I'm guessing the very wide ruled, 6 or 7 lines per page
for first/second graders)
glue sticks or Elmer's glue
pencils (#2)
pens
markers (any size)
kleenex in small packets
backpacks
*Shipping address:
*Sea Grant Law Center
University of Mississippi
Kinard Hall, Room 258 E
University, MS 38677
If you have any questions about our relief efforts, please give
Stephanie Showalter, Josh Clemons or Waurene Roberson a call at (662)
915-7775, or email [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask] Our other staff member, Jason Savarese, is down on
the coast assisting his family with their losses in Biloxi and we are
not sure how soon he will be able to return. Thank you so much for your
generosity.
Waurene Roberson
Media Coordinator (662) 915-7775
National Sea Grant Law Center & MS-AL Sea Grant Legal Program
http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/SGLC"
David Cameron Duffy
Professor of Botany and Unit Leader
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PCSU)
University of Hawai`i
3190 Maile Way St. John 410
Honolulu, HI 96822-2279
(808) 956-8218 phone
(808) 973-2936 fax / (808) 956-3923 (backup fax)
email address: [log in to unmask]
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