In the News...Again

The Foundation for Peace was in the news again. This article was featured on NJ.com on Saturday.

Salem County students collect funds, items for quake victims
Saturday, January 30, 2010
By Shabria Davis
and Phil Dunn tsnews@sjnewsco.com

In the wake of the recent tragedy in Haiti, at least two county school districts
have staff members who will be traveling to the Dominican Republic next
month to aid in the relief effort.

Their actions are also helping to inspire their students and other staff to
donate whatever they can to help the earthquake victims, and their country in
general, recover.

Laurie Miles, a Spanish teacher at Mary Shoemaker School in Woodstown,
and Elsinboro School nurse Lori Couch, will travel to the Dominican Republic
from Feb. 12 through Feb. 16 with the Foundation for Peace. The group will
be lending their support to Jimani Hospital, which is on the border of the
Dominican Republic and Haiti. Many earthquake victims are being treated at
the facility.

According to Miles, the group usually travels to the Dominican Republic on a
mission trip every year to work on various buildings, but after hearing of the
earthquake they decided to change the focus of this year's trip.

"The trip was planned before the earthquake occurred. We were going to go
there and finish building a medical center that we started last year and start
building a church," said Miles, who also teaches English as a second language
and the gifted and talented program at the school. "But after the earthquake
we decided to go to the hospital and provide relief work."

Miles said those traveling with the organization are ready and willing to help
in any way possible. She added that there is a group from the organization
currently assisting at the hospital.

In preparation for her trip, students at Mary Shoemaker School spent the
month of January collecting items to send to the Dominican Republic.
Initially, the students were collecting backpacks and school supplies to be
given to students at the Centro Educativo La Obra de Dios school, which the
Foundation for Peace has worked with for several years. But in light of the
earthquake, Miles suggested that students bring in medical supplies, which
she will take with her on her trip.  Read more>>