University of Otago student Nic Twaddle (left, 29) and
campus pastor Josh Eyre (27) with donated lunch packs
destined for the University of Canterbury Volunteer Student
Army in Christchurch. Photo by Gregor Richardson.
An army marches on its stomach, and those volunteers
helping people affected by the Christchurch earthquake want
your help.
University of Otago students volunteers are preparing more
than 10,000 non-perishable lunch packs to be sent to the
2000-strong University of Canterbury Student Volunteer Army
this weekend.
The volunteers were working in non-critical outlying areas,
clearing silt and lifting bricks for those requiring
assistance, and required lunches to "keep them going",
University of Otago student Nic Twaddle said.
The Dunedin arm of the student army, with support of the
student association, was preparing lunches for its
Christchurch counterparts, and was asking for any available
individual items or lunch packs of muesli bars, chocolate
bars, raisins, crackers in plastic lunch wrap, and tuna cans.
A collection point would be set up at the student union,
opposite the Otago Museum, and any contributions would be
gratefully received today from 10am to 6pm.
More than 1000 packed lunches were expected to be sent by car
today, with the remainder to be freighted north tomorrow
morning by Northern Southland Transport, which had donated
its services, Mr Twaddle said.
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