THURSDAY,OCT.25,2001
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
Student helps in East Coast relief effort
By Matt Norton Kansan staff writer
Annie McKay was helping the Red Cross in Greenwich, Conn., in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks when a woman asked whether she could just write a check and attach a little note about a loved one lost in the attacks.
"Sure." McKav told the woman.
When the woman left, McKay took a look at the check and saw that it was for $10,000.
McKay, Hutchinson junior, worked with the Red Cross in Greenwich last summer,and it contacted her to help out with the postattack relief efforts.
Greenwich, which is about a 40-minute train ride from New York City, is a bedroom community for New York's financial district. Although there was no rubble to clean up, there was a lot of financial support and social workers and mental health professionals counseling the people there, McKay said.
Sne said that in her two-year stint with AmeriCorps, which works with the American Red Cross on emergency assistance projects, she had been on the scene of many disasters, including helping survivors of Hurricane George in Puerto Rico.
Jennifer Weaver, an out-of-town friend visiting McKay who worked with her in Puerto Rico, said she had expected McKay to lend a hand to those who suffered from the attacks.
This was something that she wouldn't
even think twice about," Weaver said.
McKay said she had noticed that the emotional and financial impact on victims in New York and Washington, D.C. was far greater than she had seen at previous disasters where she helped with relief efforts.
"The impact for these people was too much to handle all at one time," she said.
McKay said that as she flew to Greenwich, she began to think about the 16-hour work days that would follow in the next two weeks and the frantic pace of events that would leave her and other workers worn ragged.
She said the outpouring of support from everyone in the community made the experience more than worthwhile.
"Little kids were running in with zip lock bags of change they had from running lemonade stands all weekend," McKay said.
McKay, who is in the social welfare program at the University, said the experience fortified her desire to work with people after she graduated.
people have told me.
"Aside from a lucrative career in the WNBA, I couldn't imagine anything dragging me away from this," she said.
CHRISTINA NEFF/KANSAN
Contact Norton at 864-4810
Annie McKay, Hutchinson junior, helped the Red Cross lin the Greenwich, Conn., in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. McKay dealt with financial support while in Greenwich.
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