{"73152":{"#nid":"73152","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Spend Spring Break Doing Hurricane Relief","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EForget Padre Island, Destin or even Cancun, this spring break\u0027s hot destination for a group of Georgia Tech students is New Orleans. Starting Sunday, March 19, a group of students will be helping people whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina to rebuild their lives. It\u0027s the latest in a series of efforts by the students, faculty and staff of Georgia Tech to help those who were displaced by this season\u0027s storms. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Sunday morning, 44 Georgia Tech students will head to New Orleans, for an eight-day trip to help residents of St. Bernard Parish clean up their storm damaged homes. Students will be working with Habitat for Humanity.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ll be removing trash and personal items from the houses that are salvageable,\u0022 said Sarah Brackmann, assistant director of student involvement for the Office of Community Service (OCS).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to helping with storm clean up, students will visit Tulane University for a talk by Tulane students and local residents about the realities of living in a post-Katrina New Orleans. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShortly after Katrina, Tech provided food and shelter to 275 student evacuees from Tulane. Volunteers from Tech helped many of them get to their hometowns and assisted others who needed help finding housing in Atlanta. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the third such trip Tech students have taken to the areas damaged by last year\u0027s storms. Over winter break, another group of students traveled to Mobile, AL, to help clean homes damaged, rather than going home for the holidays. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the fall break, the Tech chapter of Campus Christian Fellowship organized a relief trip that delivered 225 student volunteers to four locations along the Gulf Coast. The organization worked with Tech\u0027s Student Health Services to provide tetanus shots for student volunteers, and the Counseling Center to provide orientation sessions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents and the Institute have responded to the needs of the Gulf Coast in a myriad of ways. Shortly after the storms, students raised more than $50,000 for relief efforts. Georgia Tech also opened the Coliseum for the Red Cross to use as a temporary shelter. Several volunteers from campus coordinated activities for the children at the shelter, while trained caseworkers volunteered their time to help evacuees obtain needed resources.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"During spring break group of students will help people whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina rebuild their lives. It\u0027s the latest in a series of efforts by the students, faculty and staff of Georgia Tech to help those who were displaced by last year\u0027s storms.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students clean storm damaged homes in New Orleans"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2006-03-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:23","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-03-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-03-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73153":{"id":"73153","type":"image","title":"Buzz gives a thumbs up","body":null,"created":"1449177979","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:19","changed":"1475894671","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:31"}},"media_ids":["73153"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}