This week, 1,168 education kits and 286 health kits – that's thousands of pounds worth of notebooks and crayons, toothbrushes and soap – are on their way from the College's Kenney Community Center to Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, the result of weeks of work by Union students and others eager to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
“Each of the Minervas pledged money to purchase supplies for the children,” said Golub House's Varun Shetty '08, who launched the initiative.
Thirty-one groups in all, including church groups from as far away as Syracuse, pitched in for the joint Union-community effort.
The kits were assembled in Minerva houses and packed up in the Kenney Center, where they engulfed the basement before being loaded onto a truck coordinated by Director of Campus Safety William Sickinger.
Next stop for the essential supplies: Church World Services in Baltimore, Md., which is handling final distribution.