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Wharton
Undergraduates
Lend a Hand in
Katrina Relief
"Seeing and hearing the
devastation first hand has
made us all motivated to
keep the issue of Katrina
alive today," says Allison
Strouse, W'07. Strouse
was one of 14 undergraduates
who took part
in a Wharton Council
volunteer trip organized
by Louisiana native Rina
Thomas, W'08, to help
the relief efforts in New
Orleans. Enabled by a
sponsorship from Deutsche
Bank, from May 7 to 13
the students cleaned homes
that had been devastated
by Hurricane Katrina.
"We gutted houses in
the morning and consulted
small businesses in
the evening with the help
of Dr. Michael Cusack
at the University of New
Orleans' Small Business
Development Center,"
says Thomas, whose group
dubbed itself the Cajun
Cleanup Crew. "This trip
had all the right stuff—experiential
learning, team
building, community building,
community service. We
now have 14 students who
are fired up about continuing
these efforts."
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