\n\tWe will update this as more events occur; if you have an event, please send the details to news@news-gazette.com<\/a> with “haiti relief” in the subject line, and include a way for us to contact you to verify details:<\/p>\n \n\tResident Director Saheed Rosenje said throughout the month the entire\u00a0 Hendrick House advisory staff and a majority of the student government officers there will volunteer time and efforts to raise funds for Haitian relief.<\/p>\n \tThe money will be donated to Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross.\u00a0 The owners of Hendrick House have pledged a donation matching the funds raised by the students.<\/p>\n \t\u00a0\u201cThe awareness is still here now,\u201d said Grace Wellman, a resident adviser, \u201cbut we fear that it will decrease as the month continues, while the need will still be present.\u201d<\/p>\n \tSmash for Haiti will be from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Feb. 27 at Hendrick House and will be open to the public.\u00a0 Students and guests will be invited to play video games, \u201cbeat up\u201d on their friends on screen and join in free tournament and free play of Super Smash Brothers Games.\u00a0 More information is available at www.smashforhaiti.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \tThe students also will be able to express how much they \u201dlove\u201d their resident advisers by contributing to collection cans adorned with the adviser\u2019s photo, throughout the month.\u00a0 The adviser with the most raised on March 1 will get a pie in the face.<\/p>\n \t\u201cKisses for Haiti,\u201d Feb. 1 \u2013 14, encouraged students to be sweet to\u00a0 their friends by sending them CandyGrams, which were delivered on\u00a0 Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0 The Hendrick House Government provided the CandyGrams with the students\u2019 total purchase price going to the Haitian fund.<\/p>\n \n\tMembers of Franklin\u2019s National Junior Honor Society are collecting donations at lunch, after school and at sporting events for relief in Haiti.<\/p>\n \n\tThey\u2019ve put a \u201cHelping Hands for Haiti\u201d bulletin board in the school\u2019s cafeteria, with photos of the nation. Anyone donating for earthquake relief can write his or her name on a hand and put it on the bulletin board, said Meg Goethals, a sixth-grade reading teacher and the adviser for the National Junior Honor Society.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cInstead of getting a snack that day, (students) are giving their money to Haiti,\u201d Goethals said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe students hope to reach $1,000 in donations. The student organization emphasizes leadership and community service, in addition to academics.<\/p>\n \n\tThe fundraising drive will continue through February. The students will donate the money they collect to the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n \n\tThe university\u2019s Conferences and Event Planning class will be selling \u201cStand with Haiti\u201d wristbands, in addition to collecting medical supplies and monetary donations throughout the semester.<\/p>\n \n\tWristbands will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Thursday in the University Union and in Coleman Hall.\u00a0 In addition the students will also have a table set up before the women\u2019s basketball game at 5 p.m. until after the televised ESPNU men\u2019s game on Thursday outside Lantz Arena. \n\tAll proceeds benefit Haiti earthquake relief efforts and will be made through the Haiti Connection, which is affiliated with the Newman Catholic Center.\u00a0 Contact Dan Crews, instructor of the conferences and event planning class, at (217) 581-2113 or Roy Lanham with the Haiti Connection at (217) 348-0188 for further information.<\/p>\n \n\tCrews said the group has set a goal of raising $1,000, but he \u201cwould not be surprised if we doubled that by the end of the semester.\u201d \u00a0 \n\tSpeakers with knowledge of Haiti shared their perspective about the country, and gave information on ways to participate in relief efforts, said organizer Melissa Pognon. The event also featured musical performances by drummer Bolokada Conde and Rhythm Manding, featuring dancer Alseny Soumah.<\/p>\n \n\tConde and Soumah, both from Guinea, West Africa, have toured the world with Guinea\u2019s top-performing music ensembles and are currently visiting instructors at the university through Robert E. Brown Center for World Music. Rhythm Manding is a group of Bolokada\u2019s students who often accompany him for local performances.<\/p>\n \n\tFor more information: www.bolokadaconde.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tC-U Haiti Relief is a consortium of students, faculty, and Champaign-Urbana community members working for disaster relief in Haiti. The group is an initiative of Planners Network, an association of professionals, activists, academics and students involved in planning professions who promote political and economic change.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe peanut butter will be given to the First Christian Church Friday, which will send them overseas. The school is hoping to collect 100 jars of peanut butter.<\/p>\n \n\tThe relief project ties in with the school’s study for Black History Month of George Washington Carver, a scientist who conducted research on peanuts.<\/p>\n \n\tThe students sold red T-shirts and bracelets, had a bake sale, collected pledges and placed donation cans around the school. They sold the red “We (Heart) Haiti” T-shirts and the bracelets at the Urbana-Champaign Centennial basketball game on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n \n\tA portion of the gate receipts and concession money from the game also went to Haitian earthquake relief, through the UNICEF Foundation.<\/p>\n \n\tStudents were asked to bring in 100 coins of any denomination and donate them to the American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.<\/p>\n \n\tSeveral staff members suggested collecting coins, then decided to combine it with the 100th-day celebration, said teacher Crystal Hunt, who is also student council sponsor for the school.<\/p>\n \n\tSeveral of her first-graders brought in 100 pennies or 100 coins. By the end of the week-long drive, students had raised $738.02.<\/p>\n \n\tMembers camped in emergency shelters from ShelterBox International, which has already provided shelter for more than 30,000 people in Haiti.<\/p>\n \n\tEach ShelterBox supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless (see www.shelterboxusa.org<\/a>). The agency estimates more than 1 million Haitians lost their homes in the Jan. 12 earthquake.<\/p>\n \n\tRotary International is a primary sponsor of ShelterBox.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Champaign West Rotary shelter was set up at 202 S. Neil St., C, until 6 a.m. Feb. 4. Rotarians collected money throughout the event, and the total came to $10, 412. That will be added to the $4,905 already donated by individual Rotary members, a club press release said.<\/p>\n \n\tArea businesses supporting the campout included WDWS-AM, The Atkins Group, Coldwell Banker Commercial, Devonshire Realty, First State Bank, BankChampaign, One Main, Rogards, Robesons, Kanfer Gallery, AR Mechanical and Tatman’s.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Interact Club raised $1,000 when it set up a ShelterBox display in the school lobby and showed a video of their use around the world. And the Student Council decided to allocate another $1,000 for a second ShelterBox.<\/p>\n \n\tFive people agreed to match the pledge, so the effort totaled more than $300, Bleill said.<\/p>\n \n\tJacqueline Hannah is seeking at least 100 donated quilt blocks for quilts that she and her husband, Mike, will put together. The finished quilts will be raffled off, with the proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n \n\tThe blocks can be simple or fancy. They should be 12 inches square, with bright colors and no words or drawings. They may be of any pattern but should be pieced or appliqued.<\/p>\n \n\tHannah is also looking for donations of cotton quilting-quality backing material, as well as batting from old blankets that are not stretchy and are thin.<\/p>\n \n\tBlocks from kids are welcome as long as they are pieced, meaning the blocks have more than one piece of fabric sewn together.<\/p>\n \n\tHannah has a simple pattern she can e-mail on request. Her e-mail is jzwhannahgmail.com.<\/p>\n \n\tShe and her husband will cover most of the costs but would appreciate donations. Hannah and her husband also want help sewing the quilts.<\/p>\n \n\tHannah asks for the blocks by Feb. 20. People may drop them off at the Common Ground Food Co-op on the east side of Lincoln Square Village in Urbana. Hannah is manager of the co-op.<\/p>\n \n\tFourth-grade teacher Vickie Cromwell suggested a penny drive to tie in with the 100th day of school celebration that day. Children started bringing in coins earlier this month.<\/p>\n \n\tPrincipal Mary Beth Norris said Friday she hadn’t tallied the final amount, but “it’s probably over $1,000.”<\/p>\n \n\t“We’re excited about that,” she said. “I think everybody was looking for a way to help and make a difference in Haiti.”<\/p>\n \n\tThey put collection boxes in every classroom, and set up a table at the school’s annual Fun Night celebration Friday. The total haul: $350. The money will go to the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n \n\tThey surpassed that goal on Feb. 5, raising $5,213 for Catholic Relief Services, according to Principal Kathleen Scherer.<\/p>\n \n\tThey collected a total of $1,200.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n UPDATED 9 a.m. Feb. 17: Here are some of the ways East Central Illinois residents are helping the people of Haiti. 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