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 j862sTG14265; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:54:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:54:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <018601c5b28d$bcde5f30$6401a8c0@Dottie> 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: "Dottie" <dottie@shattuck.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11105] idea for ESL adults to help w/hurricane relief X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2123 Lines: 47 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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