Clothing Needed
Dear Editor: I’m trying to gather children’s clothes to send to Kenya. I have a widow lady with nine children and a newly widowed lady with eight children. Then I have an AIDS lady with four children.
I need kids clothes of all sizes and T-shirts of any size. I saw a picture of a little girl with a T-shirt and she was wearing it for a dress.
Also, I’d like some small packets of dry food, like mashed potatoes, noodles, rice, beans or raisins. I’m trying to find a place to have a soup kitchen daily for children. One minister told me he picked up two children off the street that were going through garbage cans looking for food. The children are hungry. I’m also the trying to get a fresh water well dug so the people in Kisii won’t have to drink dirty water. Cholera and typhoid are bad. Malaria is bad, too, and mosquitoes like stagnant water.
Please bring all donated items to 2037 Halibut Point Road this Saturday, 1-4 p.m. My phone is 747-7265. Thank you for considering the poor.
Mary Ann Hall, Sitka
AmeriCorps Volunteers
Dear Editor: The Sitka Sound Science Center has had an AmeriCorps Volunteer for the past several years. Community Schools’ Faith Lee is in charge of the Americrops Program for our community. She does a wonderful job working with the volunteers and the host organizations to assure the partnerships are strong.
Currently our AmeriCorps Volunteer is Alaina Avery. The Science Center completely lucked out in finding Alaina. She has extensive experience in marine science education and research. Alaina played a key role in our killer whale articulation, she runs summer science camps, preschool, and after school programs for the Science Center. In addition she does informal science education programs in the summer with visitors, during Sitka Whalefest and in the schools through our Scientists in the Schools Taking AME (Aquaculture and Marine Science Education) program. She is upbeat and shares her positive energy with the staff and the community that she serves. Having AmeriCorps partner with the Science Center has allowed us to build our capacity, and develop more scientific research and educational programs. We hopefully are providing Alaina and our other AmeriCorps volunteers with some rare on the job training and she is expanding her work skill set.
When Sheldon Jackson College shut down we lost an influx of young people to our community. I am thankful for the AmeriCorps program because in addition to providing skilled people to the non profit and educational sector, it introduces new, young, energetic, and enthusiastic young people to town…. who sometimes stay and make Sitka their home.
With deep gratitude for the AmeriCorps service program (and Alaina too!)
Lisa Busch, Executive Director,
Sitka Sound Science Center
