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For
Immediate Release
Contact:
Ron Harris
Director of Communications
202.683.0182
rjharris@howard.edu
Howard
University’s WHUR 96.3
FM “A Helping Hand”
Radiothon
Fundraiser Sends 300 Students
to Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans
and Washington area to help
the less fortunate.
Washington
(February 20, 2009) –
Howard University Radio (WHUR
96.3 FM) will host a 12-hour
Radiothon, “A Helping
Hand,” Sunday, March
1, to raise $50,000 to send
nearly 300 Howard University
students to Chicago, Detroit,
New Orleans and across the
Washington, D.C. area where
they will help families wrestling
with issues ranging from illiteracy
to the lingering effects of
Hurricane Katrina.
The effort is part of the
University’s continuing
Alternative Spring Break (ASB)
program. Every year, hundreds
of Howard students forgo the
comforts of home or vacationing
on beaches in Florida or the
Caribbean to help those in
need.
For the last three years,
hundreds of students have
spent their spring break helping
victims of Hurricane Katrina
in New Orleans.
Now in its 14th year, Howard
University’s ASB program,
coordinated through the Office
of the Dean of the Chapel,
continues to take students
on public service missions.
This year, some students will
return to New Orleans to help
in the city’s legal
departments. In Chicago, students
will work to reduce gun violence
in conjunction with efforts
by local churches. In Detroit,
they will concentrate on literacy
by helping students in the
city’s public schools,
and in the Washington metro
area, they will tackle homelessness
in the District of Columbia
and surrounding communities
in Maryland and Virginia and
provide mentoring and tutoring
to area students.
Volunteers include undergraduates,
Howard University Law School
students, other graduate students
as well as faculty and staff.
All donations to this year’s
ASB will help to further the
University’s legacy
of leadership and service
to our nation.
For more information on how
to support students in this
important service mission,
please visit http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2008/081215asb.htm
Howard University is one of
48 U.S. private, Doctoral/Research-Extensive
universities and comprises
12 schools and colleges. Founded
in 1867, students pursue studies
in more than 120 areas leading
to undergraduate, graduate
and professional degrees.
Since 1998, the University
has produced two Rhodes Scholars,
a Truman Scholar, 13 Fulbright
Scholars and nine Pickering
Fellows. Howard also produces
more on-campus African-American
Ph.D.s than any other university
in the world. For more information
on Howard University, call
202-238-2330, or visit the
University’s Web site
at www.Howard.edu.
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