Princeton Tsunami Relief (PTR) has collected more than $17,500 from University students, faculty and staff, organizers announced this week. Fundraising efforts began six weeks ago.
The amount represents a large increase over PTR's initial one-month goal of $10,000, said PTR coordinator Akanksha Hazari '05.
Checks to the International Rescue Committee and CARE USA, two major humanitarian organizations led by Princeton alumni, were supposed to be sent on Feb. 14. That plan was "delayed because it [has] taken time to get all the money in from various [academic] departments," Hazari said. The money will be sent later this week.
Other tsunami relief fundraisers are still soliciting donations. Making Waves, a project coordinated by the University's Cotsen Children's Library and students Meridel Bulle '05 and Elona Toska '05, hopes to raise $150,000 for CARE USA by the end of April. The program plans to collect one dollar for each origami wave folded "in remembrance of each life swept away in the 2004 tsunami," the library's proposal said.
Tara McGowan, a storyteller at Cotsen, said the library is in the process of installing a display about Making Waves on the 100-level of Frist Campus Center. The exhibit will show the waves folded in the project as well as Princeton resident Nicky Katz's collection of origami made around the world, McGowan said.
Princeton-in-Asia (PiA) also hopes to contribute to the relief effort. Though it already has programs in place that this year's crop of college graduates can participate in, PiA intends to develop new programs "to send talented young people to Asia to continue [contributing to relief efforts] in some way," said PiA executive director Anastasia Vrachnos.
"Everybody rushes in this kind of situation . . . but we're not rushing to react," she said. "We want to do something meaningful to the community that is service-oriented and sustainable."
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