FVSU and Katrina Relief
FVSU reaches out to disaster victims at home and across state lines
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Fort Valley State University moved quickly and decisively last week to extend both its hands to victims of Hurricane Katrina at home and in other states.
Following a Sept. 1 call from Interim President William H. Harris to provide “whatever assistance possible to the victims of this tragedy,” Fort Valley State University administrators,faculty, staff and students began providing help to Hurricane Katrina victims at both the institutional and personal levels.
Locally, the university provided food, shelter and other necessities to Peach and Taylor county residents who were victims of the tornadoes that struck Fort Valley and near Pickling Mill on August 29.
University officials have also identified FVSU students from Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama to provide counseling and other assistance they may need.
To reach out nationally, the university’s non-profit Foundation began raising funds and gathering non-perishable items such as bottled water, canned goods, blankets or household items to aid victims in the three storm-damaged states.
University spokespersons said cash contributions are being received in the university’s Foundation office and stations have been set up in major campus buildings to receive nonperishable items. While gathering humanitarian aid for hurricane victims, FVSU also joined other institutions in the University System of Georgia and across much of the Southeast in opening its doors to college and university students whose institutions were shut down by the disaster.
FVSU spokespersons said that more than 75,000 college students in the New Orleans
area alone are seeking ways to continue their educations and trying to bring some degree of normalcy back to their lives. Institutions affected by the storm include Dillard University,Loyola University-New Orleans, Our lady of Holy Cross College, Southern University-New Orleans, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Reports of similar problems in Mississippi have also been received.
Following the guidelines set up by the state’s Board of Regents, FVSU began waiving
out-of-state tuition and providing housing and other assistance to potential students on a case-by case basis. Students from the affected areas can enroll in FVSU online courses and/or as transient students. And while the deadline to gain admission to FVSU is Sept.10, university officials say that they – like other institutions – are considering a special second fall session to accommodate displaced students. They said more information about enrolling and admission can be found on the FVSU web page at www.fvsu.edu/katrina.asp. The University expanded its relief efforts the next week by teaming up with local churches through the Ministerial Alliance and Grace House to increase assistance to local and Gulf Coast victims of the storm.
Fort Valley State partnered with other local agencies and organizations to continue its efforts to raise money and collect non-perishable items such as blankets, canned goods, small household items and personal hygiene projects from the campus faculty, staff and students to provide survivors financial support and resources.In addition, the university began providing debris removal equipment to aid local victims in beginning clean-up activities for their homes and businesses and identified student volunteers to assist in debris removal and provide other forms of assistance.
The University will also create automobile flyer notices that will inform local people of sites where they can make donations to hurricane relief efforts and establish a computerized tracking system of area relief efforts that will enable area churches to do follow-up activities with local victims. “We continue to search for the most effective ways to aid our fellow citizens – both here
and in other states – who have suffered this enormous tragedy,” said Katéy Assem, FVSU vice president for advancement and research. “We will continue to explore every possible avenue of assistance that we can to alleviate to whatever degree we can the suffering this disaster has inflicted.”
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Fort Valley State University moved quickly and decisively last week to extend both its hands to victims of Hurricane Katrina at home and in other states.
Following a Sept. 1 call from Interim President William H. Harris to provide “whatever assistance possible to the victims of this tragedy,” Fort Valley State University administrators,faculty, staff and students began providing help to Hurricane Katrina victims at both the institutional and personal levels.
Locally, the university provided food, shelter and other necessities to Peach and Taylor county residents who were victims of the tornadoes that struck Fort Valley and near Pickling Mill on August 29.
University officials have also identified FVSU students from Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama to provide counseling and other assistance they may need.
To reach out nationally, the university’s non-profit Foundation began raising funds and gathering non-perishable items such as bottled water, canned goods, blankets or household items to aid victims in the three storm-damaged states.
University spokespersons said cash contributions are being received in the university’s Foundation office and stations have been set up in major campus buildings to receive nonperishable items. While gathering humanitarian aid for hurricane victims, FVSU also joined other institutions in the University System of Georgia and across much of the Southeast in opening its doors to college and university students whose institutions were shut down by the disaster.
FVSU spokespersons said that more than 75,000 college students in the New Orleans
area alone are seeking ways to continue their educations and trying to bring some degree of normalcy back to their lives. Institutions affected by the storm include Dillard University,Loyola University-New Orleans, Our lady of Holy Cross College, Southern University-New Orleans, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Reports of similar problems in Mississippi have also been received.
Following the guidelines set up by the state’s Board of Regents, FVSU began waiving
out-of-state tuition and providing housing and other assistance to potential students on a case-by case basis. Students from the affected areas can enroll in FVSU online courses and/or as transient students. And while the deadline to gain admission to FVSU is Sept.10, university officials say that they – like other institutions – are considering a special second fall session to accommodate displaced students. They said more information about enrolling and admission can be found on the FVSU web page at www.fvsu.edu/katrina.asp. The University expanded its relief efforts the next week by teaming up with local churches through the Ministerial Alliance and Grace House to increase assistance to local and Gulf Coast victims of the storm.
Fort Valley State partnered with other local agencies and organizations to continue its efforts to raise money and collect non-perishable items such as blankets, canned goods, small household items and personal hygiene projects from the campus faculty, staff and students to provide survivors financial support and resources.In addition, the university began providing debris removal equipment to aid local victims in beginning clean-up activities for their homes and businesses and identified student volunteers to assist in debris removal and provide other forms of assistance.
The University will also create automobile flyer notices that will inform local people of sites where they can make donations to hurricane relief efforts and establish a computerized tracking system of area relief efforts that will enable area churches to do follow-up activities with local victims. “We continue to search for the most effective ways to aid our fellow citizens – both here
and in other states – who have suffered this enormous tragedy,” said Katéy Assem, FVSU vice president for advancement and research. “We will continue to explore every possible avenue of assistance that we can to alleviate to whatever degree we can the suffering this disaster has inflicted.”
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