By Jondi Gumz
Sentinel staff writer
Three college students from Santa Cruz County will spend their winter break in New Orleans helping rebuild areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
They are Aaron Buchbinder and Nicole Falk, who attend UC Santa Cruz, and Michel Deleage, a Cabrillo College student, all active in the Chabad Student Center at UCSC. About 100 student volunteers from more than 30 colleges, including Columbia, Harvard and Northwestern, will participate in relief missions.
The Santa Cruz group left Sunday and will return in a week. Organizers will provide room and board for volunteers, who must find their own transportation to and from New Orleans.
Rabbi Shlomie Chein of the center said the effort targets five sectors of the New Orleans community:
* Local residents: Helping to make homes livable again by removing mold-infested debris and ruined carpets and walls.
* Public schools: Preparing buildings so students can return to their studies and routines.
* Habitat for Humanity: Assisting the national organization in their building and rebuilding efforts.
* Jewish organizations and synagogues: Working in conjunction with the Jewish Federation to identify institutions that require help in getting their facilities back in order so they can serve the community.
* Burial society: Helping coordinate proper removal and burial of thousands of Jewish holy books scattered throughout the city that were destroyed during the hurricane.
The relief mission is a joint project between the Chabad on Campus National Foundation and Lubavitch Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, director of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at Tulane, whose efforts have been praised by President Bush.
Sentinel staff writer
Three college students from Santa Cruz County will spend their winter break in New Orleans helping rebuild areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
They are Aaron Buchbinder and Nicole Falk, who attend UC Santa Cruz, and Michel Deleage, a Cabrillo College student, all active in the Chabad Student Center at UCSC. About 100 student volunteers from more than 30 colleges, including Columbia, Harvard and Northwestern, will participate in relief missions.
The Santa Cruz group left Sunday and will return in a week. Organizers will provide room and board for volunteers, who must find their own transportation to and from New Orleans.
Rabbi Shlomie Chein of the center said the effort targets five sectors of the New Orleans community:
* Local residents: Helping to make homes livable again by removing mold-infested debris and ruined carpets and walls.
* Public schools: Preparing buildings so students can return to their studies and routines.
* Habitat for Humanity: Assisting the national organization in their building and rebuilding efforts.
* Jewish organizations and synagogues: Working in conjunction with the Jewish Federation to identify institutions that require help in getting their facilities back in order so they can serve the community.
* Burial society: Helping coordinate proper removal and burial of thousands of Jewish holy books scattered throughout the city that were destroyed during the hurricane.
The relief mission is a joint project between the Chabad on Campus National Foundation and Lubavitch Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, director of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at Tulane, whose efforts have been praised by President Bush.
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