Greensburg relief mission canceled

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A trip that would have taken student volunteers to Greensburg to aid in the disaster relief efforts was canceled because students weren’t volunteering.

The Student Involvement and Leadership Center organized a trip to volunteer in Greensburg after a tornado in early May left 95 percent of the town destroyed.

Although the center sent an e-mail last week, no student organizations signed up to go on the volunteering trip.

Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of the SILC, said he thought that because of students having more free time during the summer, more people would be able to volunteer.

Quisenberry said he had no idea and did not want to guess as to why only one organization and two individuals showed any interest in the trip but didn’t confirmed.

“If we don’t get anybody, I might still go out all by myself.” Quisenberry said. “There will be more trips organized I’m sure because there still is a lot of work to do.”

While in Greensburg, they would have done different tasks including cleaning up debris and picking up trees.

Quisenberry is from a town 15 minutes away from Greensburg.

To organize the trip, the SILC paired up with Greensburg Relief, an organization that provides volunteers and monetary aid to Greensburg disaster relief.

Students who registesterd would have left today and come back Sunday. Matthew Podszus, Coordinator of Greensburg Relief, said that every volunteer makes a difference in Greensburg.

“If you help one family it may not seem that much, but there really is a domino effect that happens,” Podszus said. “If two or three homes start going up it starts making people say ‘Maybe I want to come back to the town.’”

To sign up for another trip, students need to contact Aaron Quisenberry at aquisenberry@ku.edu.

— Edited by Ben Smith

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