University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 8, 1989
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Benefit to help send supplies to victims of Hurricane Joan
by Marian Weeks Kansan staff writer
Children, mothers and even Lawrence Memorial Hospital have cleaned out their closets to aid hurricane and war victims in Nicaragua.
Money to send the donated goods will be raised at a relief benefit at 8 tonight at the Jazzhaus, $2912% Massachusetts St. Each $3 cover charge will help Quest for Peace send almost $150 in donated goods to Nicaragua and will pay for an evening of music with The Lonesome Hounddogs.
Source: Quixote Center Stephen Kline/KANSAN
Toys, pencils, paper, supplies, summer clothing, bandages, physical therapy and Spanish textbooks, garden tools, crayons, fabric and sewing materials and even bike parts also will be collected at the door.
Kansas organizations working with the Quixote Center want to send an 8-by 40-foot canister stuffed with relief items.
Chris Lominska, 11, a six-grader at Hilleer Elementary School, said he asked his dentist for toothbrushes and got about three dozen.
One dollar sends $50 in goods to Nicaraguaans who are struggling to rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Joan and the country's civil war, said the Rev William Callahan, a director of the Quixote Center in Havilsville, Md.
Nicaraquan relief
some of the materials collected were taken to Nicaragua in a caravan and some will be shipped in the canister. Lominska said.
Callahan said devastation from the hurricane involved $840 million in damage and the partial or total destruction of 30,000 homes, leaving 180,000 homeless or in makeshift structures.
By now all 50 states have networks that contribute goods, but Kansas drove the farthest of all the states to purchase the caravan in April 1967. Callahan said.
Lominska said his parents, Bob and Jov. both elementary school
teachers in Lawrence, were Peace Corps volunteers in Nicaragua 16 years ago.
A year ago, his parents' friends from Nicaragua began to write them letters asking for help, he said.
So, with the help of his parents and 20 to 30 students, Lomska began to collect relief materials for Nicaraguans, he said.
The group collected about 60 boxes of clothing, he said.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital staff also went through closets and donated a vanload of supplies they might otherwise have thrown out, said Patie Fielding, director of physical therapy at the hospital.
Fielding said the hospital sent surgical supplies, spills, hot and cold papers and gloves, as well as stuffed bottles that were replaced by newer materials or were going
Julie Sergent, Manhattan graduate student and one of the organizers of KU Latin American Solidarity's efforts to collect goods for Quest for Peace, also has a personal link with Nicaraguaans.
unused.
Sergent's mother, a physical therapist, teaches physical therapy in Nicaragua in a school where there is only one set of textbooks.
The Rev. Vince Krische, director of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, said a recent clothing drive at the center, in cooperation with Latin American Solidarity, was not politically motivated.
"This effort's not political. It's humane." Krische said.
Lawrence citizens have sent bake parts, a van, clothing with notes from school children and many other items to Nicaraguans in the past year.
Country gets help from organizations
by Marian Weeks
Kansan staff writer
The center receives no Catholic Church financing. Directed by the Rev. Bill Callahan, a Jesuit priest, Quixote Center sends 45 percent to 50 percent of the U.S humanitarian material aid to Nicaraguans.
Quixote Center, staffed by 30 people, is a justice and peace center in Hyattsville, MD. started by the Rumpap Catholic Church.
Quest for Peace is a nationwide project of the Quixote Center. The project achieved its original goal.
The organization now is working to coordinate a national effort to send humanitarian physical aid worth $50 million by August and to end the U.S. embargo against Nicaragua and contra aid.
which was to match contra aid with humanitarian physical aid distributed in Nicaragua on the basis of need.
Communities of Peace and Friendship is a project of the Quixote Center aimed at collecting at least $1,000 from each of 2,000 communities involved in the United States for special projects
in communities in Nicaragua.
The Institute of John XXII and the Nicaraguan Red Cross are two independent agencies, overseen by a full time lay missionary in Managua, that distribute the goods on the basis of need and supervise Communities of Peace and Friendship funds.
Latin American Solidarity is a KU organization that sponsors weekly rice and beans/speaker dinners at 6 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
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