Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j8CGfTG06832; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:41:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <BAY102-F4095346F64B919DAA91C54DA9D0@phx.gbl> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Susan Ryan" <susanefl@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11122] RE: idea for ESL adults to help w/hurricane relief X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2430 Lines: 63 Great idea! Susan >From: "Dottie" <dottie@shattuck.net> >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11105] idea for ESL adults to help w/hurricane relief >Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:52:56 -0400 (EDT) > >Colleagues: If you're looking for a "hands-on" project for your adult >students (especially the Beginner levels) to do to help with Hurricane >Katrina relief, you might want to make these Health Kits. I've received >donations of the items and/or money for the supplies & my clients/students >will assemble the kits for distribution to shelters. [I've found we can >make the kits for about $6.50-$7.00 each if I get the items at any of the >$1 >stores.] > >Before they assemble the kits, we'll have a lesson about the storm & >aftermath. I think that assembling/discussing the kits will be a good >"civics education" lesson for my diverse students. Most of my students are >international refugees (I prefer to think of Katrina's victims as Displaced >Persons); I thin they'll relate quite well to Katrina's victims. > >Although this project is proposed by UMCOR, it is truly nondenominational. >The kits will go to many of the shelters throughout the country. > >If you make the kits in your program, I'd really like to hear how it went! > >Dottie Shattuck >Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS-NC) >Charlotte, NC >*************************************************** > >The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is making an appeal for >Methodists and their friends to make "Health Kits" to be sent to the Gulf >Coast areas affected by Hurricane Katrina: > >A "Health Kit" contains specific items: > >1 hand towel (15" x 25" up to 17" x 27") >1 wash cloth >1 comb (large, sturdy, not pocket-sized) >1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers) >1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. and up) >1 toothbrush (single brush only in original wrapper, no child-sized >brushes) >1 large tube of toothpaste (4.5 oz. or larger, expiration must be 6 mos. or >longer) >6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages > >All items should be placed inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag. No >money, >notes, religious or political literature, or other items should be placed >in >the kits. The value of a health kit is $12, if persons want to contribute >the money instead. Please also provide $1.00 per kit to cover distribution >costs. > >
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