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Volume XVVII, Issue 15
Educating Women To Excel
February 2,2005
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Tsunami relief team encourages Meredith
community to help rebuild hope in devastated regions
SYDNEY SIMPSON chose Save the Children be-
SYDNEY SIMPSON
Staff Writer
In response to the enor
mous destruction caused by
the tsunami on December
26, 2004, the Meredith com
munity has responded by
creating a 10-member “Sus
taining the Tide of Hope”
team. The team is com
prised of students, faculty,
and staff, and they will coor
dinate Meredith’s long term
and short term relief efforts.
The team is led by Campus
Minister Sam Carothers and
consists of Elizabeth Loftis,
Lauren Byrd, and Rebekah
Meek (students); Nikki Curl-
iss, Kristi Eaves-McLennon,
and Hillary Allen (staff);
Betty Webb, Gail Kenyon,
and Bill Landis (faculty),
and John Rose (consultant).
Meredith’s immediate re
lief effort will focus on do
nating money to the Save the
Children organization. Save
the Children is a four star
organization that is dedi
cated to helping the children
of this tragedy. More than
one-third of the tsimami
victims were children. The
children who survived the
catastrophe are at risk of di
arrhea and other diseases.
Campus Minister Sam
Carothers said the team
chose Save the Children be
cause of its four star rating,
the highest rating a relief or
ganization can receive, be
cause 90% of the funds the
organization receives goes
to relief, and because the
organization has integrity
and aid workers already in
place. Plus, “the name can’t
be beat,” Carothers said.
The team hopes to send
relief money and eventu
ally have a Meredith-based
relief effort. “Right now
we only know how to send
money,” Carothers said.
The team eventually wants
to get a group together to
help build houses, work
with children, etc. Carothers
said they definitely want to
do something in the region. -
The team wants to en
courage but not actually
hold a fundraising drive.
They hope to support other
groups on campus who want
to raise money. Carothers
thinks that many relief ef
forts will eventually spring
up on campus. “I hope every
student has some involve
ment in this relief effort.
That goes for faculty and
staff also,” Carothers said.
One long term goal the
team has is to create a website
about Meredith’s continuing
relief effort. The main ob-
photo courtesy of www.news.bbc.co.uk
A stretch of coastline in Sri Lanka as the tsunami
approached
jective in this is to keep the the relief effort. He said
need out in the open; the team
does not want people to for
get the victims. The website
will publicize information
about relief efforts that other
groups are doing. It will also
educate people about the re
gion. “We want students and
faculty to know who the peo
ple are and learn more about
the culture,” Carothers said.
Carothers said students
can help by getting creative
and excited about fundrais
ing efforts. He suggested
that students sacrifice money
they would have spent on en
tertainment or new clothes
and put that money toward
the immediate thing people
can do now is send money.
Any student who has mon
ey she wants to donate to the
relief effort can bring it by the
Campus Minister's office.
Carothers said they will sec
that the money gets to where
the student wants it to go.
Carothers hopes this is
something the Meredith
community can do for a long
time, hopefully through the
2005-2006 school year and
beyond. “There are people
there who will need help
for a long time, possibly
their whole lives,” he said.
photo courtesy of www.cnn.com
Sun/ivors wait in iine for food in Indonesia
photo courtesy of www.cnn.com
A doctor visits with a survivor in Indonesia.