Tucker Foundation funds seven Katrina Relief trips
In recognition of the continued need for aid work in the Gulf Coast region, seven student-led trips will head south this December to continue the Hurricane Katrina Relief project. Last year, only two groups were sent down to New Orleans and Mississippi through the Tucker Foundation. The number was raised to 17 this year -- the other 10 of which will occur during spring break and Summer term, depending on funding -- once the need for continued relief work became apparent. Sherry Zhao '07 and Diana Jih '09, two of the student coordinators of the Katrina Relief Trips, explained that the difficulty in sending more than two trips down last year stemmed primarily from the pressure to organize relief efforts quickly in the immediate wake of Katrina. "This year, we get to build upon those trips from last year and the research they did but also now the need is very different.