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and headquartered in Warrenton that provides essential transportation assistance to humanitarian agencies assisting people critically isolated from emergency aid. Tb date, this effort has raised more than $1,200.
The most ambitious private fund raising effort announced to date is the creation of the Thailand Tsunami Relief Organization to focus aid on Thailand, especially Phuket and the surrounding provinces.
These were areas devastated by the tsunami waves, with the loss of more than 4,000 people and the livelihood of many thousands more.
As organizer Alaina Love-Cugnori of Flint Hill points out, “We plan to focus first on emergency relief. As the organization’s relief efforts gather steam, we hope to advance longterm support, including a plan for Rappahannock County citizens to adopt a Thai fishing village and help that rural community rebuild its infrastructure and economy.”
Over $6,000 has already been raised by word-of-mouth, and more is expected to be raised with an appeals letter and at a meeting at the Washington Town Hall on Tuesday evening, January 18.
The Ambassador of Thailand, H. E. Kasit Piromya, will attend to update relief efforts in his country.
Schools offer help
As , expected, Rappahannock County schools and churches also are involved in the initial efforts to assist tsunami victims.
Flags were ordered lowered early Monday morning at all public schools in the county. Starting in the elementary schools, the Student Government Association and teacher Natalie Hathaway have started a fund raising campaign with the theme, “Make Cents” and “Change the World.”
The students plan to set up brightly decorated Gatorade bottles to collect coins for this effort. Colored construction paper chains with the names of each student donor will be made that Ms. Hathaway hopes will circle around the school.
A similar effort at the Wakefield Country Day School near Flint Hill also is underway. According to headmaster Kathy Grove, the student government is organizing a campaign to raise donations for the tsunami relief effort.
Paper hearts made by the students will be hung in the Great Hall for each donations of a minimum of 50 cents.
With over 200 students and donations expected to exceed the minimum amount, the “Chain of Hearts” for the tsunami victims should crisscross the auditorium several times over.
The students also plan to collaborate with another countywide effort that focuses on Thailand by partici
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