Thursday, September 08, 2005
Help 826LA help others.
For those of you who don't know, 826LA is one of the great things to happen to the LA-area literary community...ever. They are great people...they do wonderful things, and now, not content with helping just locally, they're pitching in with aid for people who need it most at the moment.
From their newsletter below--and please help, if you can. All best & thanks,
Rob
826 MOBILIZES TO HELP KATRINA EVACUEESLike everyone in the country, 826 National is stunned by the destruction and displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina, and we want to help. We know that providing basic needs and medical supplies is the first priority of the Red Cross, yet we are also aware of the power of storytelling and we’d like to help create a setting where students can start to write. We would like to complement the ongoing relief services by offering storytelling & bookmaking opportunities for young Americans waiting in churches and at the Astrodome in Houston.We are planning on working with a minimum of 200-250 students a day. In addition to multiple storytelling and bookmaking sessions per day, our team will establish stations where young people can come and learn how to craft their own books and journals in creative and gorgeous ways, draw cartoons, and write poems. We will also take hundreds of coloring books and crayons to offer as a positive distraction. We understand that this volunteer work will only be a tiny portion of what will need to happen in order for these young people to feel safe and complete again, but we still would like to participate in giving them some of the attention they deserve right now. Assuming that we are able to raise the necessary funds, our team will leave for Houston on Monday, September 12th. We hope to work with people in Houston during this time of crisis, and leave our teaching tips and tools behind as communities rebuild.If you are interested in donating funds or sponsoring the trip for one of our volunteers, please visit
www.826LA.org/donate
Please write “Hurricane Katrina” in the space allowed for the “In Honor” section. We are also looking for people to donate frequent flyer miles for plane tickets to Houston. Please contact Pilar Perez (pilar@826la.com) for more information.We would also gladly accept donations of supplies anytime before the end of the day this Friday. Supplies needed include crayons, pens, pencils, notebooks, construction paper, glue, scissors (safe kids' ones and adult ones), watercolors, watercoloring paper, and paint brushes.
From their newsletter below--and please help, if you can. All best & thanks,
Rob
826 MOBILIZES TO HELP KATRINA EVACUEESLike everyone in the country, 826 National is stunned by the destruction and displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina, and we want to help. We know that providing basic needs and medical supplies is the first priority of the Red Cross, yet we are also aware of the power of storytelling and we’d like to help create a setting where students can start to write. We would like to complement the ongoing relief services by offering storytelling & bookmaking opportunities for young Americans waiting in churches and at the Astrodome in Houston.We are planning on working with a minimum of 200-250 students a day. In addition to multiple storytelling and bookmaking sessions per day, our team will establish stations where young people can come and learn how to craft their own books and journals in creative and gorgeous ways, draw cartoons, and write poems. We will also take hundreds of coloring books and crayons to offer as a positive distraction. We understand that this volunteer work will only be a tiny portion of what will need to happen in order for these young people to feel safe and complete again, but we still would like to participate in giving them some of the attention they deserve right now. Assuming that we are able to raise the necessary funds, our team will leave for Houston on Monday, September 12th. We hope to work with people in Houston during this time of crisis, and leave our teaching tips and tools behind as communities rebuild.If you are interested in donating funds or sponsoring the trip for one of our volunteers, please visit
www.826LA.org/donate
Please write “Hurricane Katrina” in the space allowed for the “In Honor” section. We are also looking for people to donate frequent flyer miles for plane tickets to Houston. Please contact Pilar Perez (pilar@826la.com) for more information.We would also gladly accept donations of supplies anytime before the end of the day this Friday. Supplies needed include crayons, pens, pencils, notebooks, construction paper, glue, scissors (safe kids' ones and adult ones), watercolors, watercoloring paper, and paint brushes.
