The Black Graduate Student Organization is continuing our Hurricane Relief Drive for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who are in Alachua County. We are asking for your support and help. Please continue collecting and bringing supplies (toiletries, canned goods, can openers, clothes, etc.) to the BGSO Cublicle in the Student Activities Center, Reitz, or at the IBC in the BGSO drop box. Our Community Service Chair Jackie Olive has delivered the supplies collected so far to Gainesville Community Ministries (GCM), the lead organization for distributing supplies to survivors in Gainesville. We will be dropping off more supplies at the end of the week. Thank you to everyone who has made donations! And let's continue our efforts in helping and extending our hearts to those in need.

If you want to do more, please note that GCM is in need of volunteers. They expect that 500-1,000 families will be located in short-term housing in Gainesville over the next year. The director says that they will all be in others' homes on a short-term basis and then placed into apartments, habitat homes, etc. on a long-term basis. For this reason, GCM is in desperate need for volunteers indefinitely because they collect, sort, and disseminate most of the items that go to survivors locally. So GCM needs people to do these things, as well as make coffee, answer phones, intake and deliver goods. Their hours are 10a-6p, M& S and 10a-5p T-F. Anyone interested can call Rick LeFave @ 352-378-3654. They are located @ 5001 NW 34th Street, Ridgeway Village Shopping Center.