[Vision2020] You can help school children affected by Hurricane Katrina

[Stephanie Kalasz]

FYI
 
Stephanie Kalasz
Moscow City Clerk
206 E. Third Street
Moscow, ID  83843
(208) 883-7015
 
You can help school children affected by Hurricane Katrina
 
Backpacks for Hope is a Washington State University partnership with
former 
Cougar football player Steve Gleason, a NFL New Orleans Saints player,
and 
his mother, Gail Gleason, a WSU College of Education doctoral student
and 
graduate assistant. Through it, backpacks filled with school supplies
are 
being collected to aid some of the estimated 250,000 children displaced
by 
Hurricane Katrina. To participate, identify the grade level of student
you 
wish to help. Buy a grade-level appropriate backpack, write the grade on
a 
piece of tape affixed to the outside of the backpack. Into the backpack
put:
 
-- School supplies, including notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, colored

pencils,
    markers, rulers, scissors and glue.
-- A children's book, appropriate for the age of the child.
-- A stuffed animal for the child.
-- A journal or notebook for the child to write down their personal
story 
of how the
    hurricane has affected their life.
 
Backpacks with supplies may be dropped off:
 
-- to collection sites at WSU home football games Sept. 17 vs. Grambling

State in Seattle and Oct. 8 vs. Stanford in Pullman. WSU representatives
at 
the Seattle game will also be collecting money for the Grambling State's

Good Samaritan Fund. The fund will help support several thousand
evacuees 
in northern Louisiana.
-- to WSU Community Service Learning Center student staff at the Compton

Union Building's Redwood Bench (near the CUB information desk) from 10 
a.m.-1 p.m. on  Fridays Sept. 16, 23, 30 and Oct. 7.
 
The backpacks will be delivered to San Antonio, where they will be 
personally delivered to children by Saints players and staff and
provided 
to various relief groups working in the area.
 
For additional information, contact Melanie Brown, WSU Community Service

Learning Center, 335-5401, melanieb at wsu.edu, or Tom Brigham, Executive 
Assistant to the President for Faculty Affairs, 335-6676,
brigham at wsu.edu.
 
Postscript -- As of the afternoon of Sept. 12, employees in WSU Business

Affairs assembled/donated 10 backpacks!
 
Tim Marsh, University Relations, timarsh at wsu.edu
 
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