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Tammy
Fisher
Director of Public Relations
La Sierra University
Riverside, California
909-785-2016 voice
tfisher@lasierra.edu
August 22, 2003
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| La Sierra
University student volunteers Jesse Seibel, Adam Weeks, Melisa Reimuth,
Marni McClain, Janice Ramos, and Michelle Goltiao help the La Sierra
University Stahl Center for World Service pack quilts to supply AIDS
babies and orphans in Africa. |
| Who: |
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Twelve La Sierra University students and friends will be packing
100 quilts made for AIDS babies and orphans in Africa. Four of the
students participating in Tuesday’s packing project will leave
at 5 p.m. that evening for a mission trip to Kenya and Zambia.
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| When: |
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Tuesday, August 26 at 10:00 a.m. |
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Founder’s Green, La Sierra University
Campus, 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside CA |
| What: |
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“Quilt Drop”—100 hand-made quilts
will be packed into suitcases |
| Why: |
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“This project is one way in which
a campus of Southern California students occupied with ‘getting
degrees’ and ‘preparing for careers’ can be reminded
that they are a part of the larger world and to recognize that irrespective
of their professional vocations they have responsibilities to impact
that world,” noted Charles Teel, Director of the campus-based
Stahl Center for World Service which sponsors the quilting project
at La Sierra University |
| History: |
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The original project was launched in 1992 with a
call for 1,000 quilts for AIDS babies in Africa. The Stahl Center
was subsequently swamped by receiving more than 17,000 quilts to date
from quilters in 40 states, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean. More
than 14,000 of the quilts have been delivered to orphanages, women’s
prisons, and AIDS hospices in Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
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