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Student Volunteers Head to New Orleans to Work at Soup
Kitchen Serving Over 3,000 Affected by Katrina
New Rochelle, NY – Nine Iona student volunteers will leave for New Orleans on Saturday, January 7 to work with Global Celebration Ministries for eight days at a soup kitchen that has provided food to 3,000 to 5,000 people a day since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. The students will also travel to people in remote areas via mobile kitchens. “Our presence will help show the people in New Orleans that they haven’t been forgotten and that people still care about them,” said Jeanne McDermott, administrative assistant in the Campus Ministries Office, who will travel to New Orleans as moderator of the group. This trip, part of the Iona in Mission program, is the first of two planned for the year. Students will also work in southern Louisiana with Habitat for Humanity’s Operation Home Delivery during spring break, March 12 to 17. Through the College’s Katrina Relief Fund, Iona raised over $21,000 in September. The funds were donated to the Christian Brothers in Mississippi, Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCares. “ Iona’s students, faculty and staff were eager to become involved when Katrina hit. Our fundraising, clothing and food drives significantly supported the recovery effort. These mission trips provide a way for members of the Iona community to become more deeply involved,” said Bridget Barth, coordinator of Iona in Mission. The Iona in Mission program is a unique learning experience that offers the opportunity to serve those most in need, to engross participants in a radically different culture, and learn the tools for creating more just situations. An Iona in Mission trip can take place over a weekend or an entire semester. By design, Iona in Mission trips bring students into a different place and culture so that they may be introduced to the causes, effects and faces of violence, poverty and racial injustice in order to participate in the work of justice and peace making. Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona, currently listed in the US News and World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges 2006" and The Princeton Review's Best Northeastern Colleges 2006 edition, offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as master of arts, master of science and master of business administration degrees and numerous post-graduate certificate programs. (-30-) For questions or more information please contact:
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