Mount Mercy College Students and Staff Travel to New Orleans
to Assist with Ongoing Hurricane Katrina Recovery
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (January 28, 2008) – A group of seventeen students
and three staff members from Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, have traveled to New Orleans January 24 – 29 to assist
with on-going Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. This is the
fourth Mount Mercy group to travel to the devastated area to assist
with clean-up and recovery efforts.
The group is working
with Operation Helping Hands, a program of the Archdiocese of
New Orleans, to help with construction work, landscaping, painting
and site cleaning at locations that were devastated by Hurricane
Katrina.
Mount Mercy College,
an institution founded in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy,
encourages service to the common good and help to those in need.
According to a 2006
study by the federal agency Corporation for National & Community
Service, college students are twice as likely to volunteer as
individuals of the same age who are not enrolled in an institution
of higher education (30.2 percent and 15.1 percent, respectively).
For more information
on the Mount Mercy College Hurricane relief trip or to speak with
students and faculty participating in the trip upon their return,
please contact Stacey Jones, 319-368-6475, sjones@mtmercy.edu.
Located
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mount Mercy College is a Catholic College
providing student-focused baccalaureate education in the spirit
of the Sisters of Mercy.
Contacts:
Stacey Jones, Assistant Director of Marketing
(319) 368-6475, sjones@mtmercy.edu
Molly Altorfer, Director of Communications and Marketing
(319) 368-6475, maltorfer@mtmercy.edu
