Tufts community reaches out to hurricane victims

More than 100 Tufts students and alumni spent a week of their winter break in the Mississippi Gulf region, clearing debris, distributing supplies and starting the rebuilding process in three rural towns devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

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Alexandra Kramer, A06, helped organize the “volunteer vacation” through the Leonard Carmichael Society, Tufts’ student-run volunteer organization. “I was so lucky that I didn’t have to experience something like that, but at the same time, it made me realize that I really wanted to do something,” she said.

They worked in Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, tiny towns that have received little media attention or aid.