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Katrina Leadership Project needs volunteers for summer
Lyndsay marvin
Issue date: 11/21/07 Section: News
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Everyone in America was somewhat affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but not everyone took control like Professor Malcolm Cash of Lorain County Community College.
When Katrina struck, Cash was a professor at Bellevue Community College in Seattle. "I was deeply impacted by Katrina," said Cash, "so then I planned."
Cash began planning what he calls the Katrina Leadership Project, or KLP. The group of high school and college students first went to New Orleans April 5-11 of this year, and another project is being planned for June and July 2008.
"We saw devastation like you wouldn't believe," explained Cash. "[The experience] profoundly moved us."
According to Cash, there were tee shirts in each house with pictures of people who died there.
"I'm an educated man," said Cash, "and it tore my heart up to see that. It made me want to give back."
Cash explained that he sees students every day inline at the financial services center at LCCC. He said he figures that almost everyone is getting some kind of aid to take classes at LCCC, so those students should give aid to others who are in need.
For KLP, Cash is looking for 20-25 students. There will be positions for residential assistants/supervisors, leadership coordinators (four students and one teacher who will go to New Orleans in advance to implement the project),college faculty (students who will teach government, economics, creative and medical arts), and two or three students to be spokespeople, writers, and technologists. The groups will be split up into five groups of eight.
The idea of the project is that the college students and Katrina students will spend eight weeks in Washington, D.C., having meetings with Congress, touring the judicial system of Congress, touring the National Embassies, and listening to speakers. There will be a trip to New York and the United Nations as well.
The students will stay at Howard University in D.C. Housing, dining, technology fees, and security is being provided by Howard. $120,000 minimum and $140,000 maximum is due to them by June 1.
When Katrina struck, Cash was a professor at Bellevue Community College in Seattle. "I was deeply impacted by Katrina," said Cash, "so then I planned."
Cash began planning what he calls the Katrina Leadership Project, or KLP. The group of high school and college students first went to New Orleans April 5-11 of this year, and another project is being planned for June and July 2008.
"We saw devastation like you wouldn't believe," explained Cash. "[The experience] profoundly moved us."
According to Cash, there were tee shirts in each house with pictures of people who died there.
"I'm an educated man," said Cash, "and it tore my heart up to see that. It made me want to give back."
Cash explained that he sees students every day inline at the financial services center at LCCC. He said he figures that almost everyone is getting some kind of aid to take classes at LCCC, so those students should give aid to others who are in need.
For KLP, Cash is looking for 20-25 students. There will be positions for residential assistants/supervisors, leadership coordinators (four students and one teacher who will go to New Orleans in advance to implement the project),college faculty (students who will teach government, economics, creative and medical arts), and two or three students to be spokespeople, writers, and technologists. The groups will be split up into five groups of eight.
The idea of the project is that the college students and Katrina students will spend eight weeks in Washington, D.C., having meetings with Congress, touring the judicial system of Congress, touring the National Embassies, and listening to speakers. There will be a trip to New York and the United Nations as well.
The students will stay at Howard University in D.C. Housing, dining, technology fees, and security is being provided by Howard. $120,000 minimum and $140,000 maximum is due to them by June 1.
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