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President Cohon Offers Ways to Support Tsunami Relief
Dear Members of the Campus Community:
The recent earthquake and tsunami impacting parts of Asia and Africa have touched all of our lives. As we begin the semester, our continuing support of those whose family and friends have been most directly impacted will be especially important.
In the wake of this tragedy, many members of the Carnegie Mellon campus community have asked about ways in which they can assist in relief and rebuilding efforts in the affected nations. Carnegie Mellon Service, as part of the Student Development Office, has compiled a contact list of organizations that are serving as clearinghouses for many relief-rebuild efforts, detailed below.
Beginning on January 10th through the Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Monday, January 17th, various individuals, departments and campus organizations will be tabling in the University Center, collecting monetary donations for the relief and rebuilding efforts. One of the highlighted organizations to receive funding will be the Brother's Brother Foundation. BBF, a 47-year old Pittsburgh-based international charity, has provided over $1.4 billion of medical supplies, textbooks, food, seeds, and other humanitarian supplies to people in over 120 countries. Checks can be made out directly to Brother's Brother Foundation and either taken to the tabling in the UC or dropped off at the Student Development Office located in Morewood Gardens.
In addition, on Thursday, January 13, at 6 p.m. in the University Center, Rangos 3, a reflection and panel discussion for long-term community/campus efforts will be facilitated by representatives from the Pittsburgh Sri Venkateswara Temple, Carnegie Mellon graduate student organization AID India, and various other campus and cultural organizations.
If you or your organization would like to volunteer or sponsor a day during the Carnegie Mellon Tsunami Relief-Rebuild tabling, please contact M. Shernell Smith at 412-268-9510 or mssmith@andrew.cmu.edu.
The clean-up and rebuilding from this tragic event will be ongoing over the next several months and years. Thank you for any service you can offer to help victims recover from its impact. In so doing, you show to the world the compassion and caring that are central to our community's values.
Sincerely,
Jared L. Cohon
Contact List of Organizations
Action Against Hunger
ADRA International
Air Serv International
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc.
American Jewish World Service
AmeriCares
Association for India's Development, Inc
Baptist World Aid
B'nai B'rith International
Brother's Brother Foundation
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Christian Children's Fund
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
Church World Service
Direct Relief International
Food for the Hungry Inc.
International Aid
International Medical Corps
International Relief Teams
International Rescue Committee
Latter-Day Saint Charities
Lutheran World Relief
MAP International
Mercy Corps
Operation USA
Oxfam America
Plan USA
Project Concern International
Project HOPE
SAWSO (Salvation Army World Service Office)
Save the Children USA
Stop Hunger Now
US Fund for UNICEF
World Concern
World Emergency Relief
World Vision
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