Rochester supplies heading to Pakistan
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R.I.T. staff and students along with the J.C.C., Climbers for Christ, several local churches and the Muslim Student Association all helped collect winter gear like tents, tarps, sleeping bags and blankets. It is all to help shelter victims still homeless after the earthquake struck Pakistan last October.
The campaign was part of an online donation drive called quakehelp.net. On Monday, they packed up the gear to be air-lifted to Pakistan, India and Kashmir.
“We packed and wrapped and labeled and weighed and inventoried the 150th box, so we have here about two and a half tons,” said R.I.T. professor John Schull. “I am very happy with the amount. It is one of those things where you don’t know whether to be amazed at how much or amazed at how little.”
The community’s generosity is proving contagious. UPS will ship all of the survival gear free of charge.
Source: R News
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