Wednesday’s second editorial praises CCU students donating
their time here on the Grand Strand responding to the crisis in Haiti.
Coastal
Carolina University
students are signing up across the campus to construct shelters for people in Haiti
left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake. They will work in shifts Friday on
Prince Lawn from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. building 8-foot by 12-foot structures.
The idea is “to get the ball rolling” on an area project to construct 1,001
shelters, according to CCU spokeswoman Martha Hunn.
The building construction class at Socastee High School is also building shelters.
In all, 30 have been completed. Ed Jackson, a developer and president of the
board of StreetReach, hopes to involve other schools, churches, business and
service organizations to build the homes which will be shipped to Haiti in
sections for assembly in two hours. The bulk of the shelters will be
prefabricated in The Sun News warehouse, then stacked and banded. The cost of
materials is $500 and donations are sought. ``Shelter Haiti’’ is the project of
Houston-based Christians Organized for Relief Efforts (CORE Alliance) and
Christ in Action, Manassas, Va. Nationally, the goal is to build 10,000
shelters.
‘Shelter Haiti’
Donations for building materials
may be made payable to the Waccamaw Community Foundation for the Shelter Haiti
Fund, 3655 S. U.S. 17
Business, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576.
Phone 357-4483.
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