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"CAUSE Nineteen-year-old New York University student Erin Schrode says she's always been passionate about activism. In March 2010, two months after a major earthquake struck Haiti, she traveled to the small country to volunteer at Project Medishare, a field hospital in Port-au-Prince. While she was there, she met a teacher who lamented that few of the children were being taught\u2014Haiti had temporarily closed all schools in the wake of the tragedy. The teacher was willing to provide lessons, Erin recalls, but he just didn't have the tools. \"Where to start seemed clear to me,\" she says. \"Everyone needs supplies to learn. So I set out to make it happen.\" Erin recruited friends, family, and companies to put together packs of environmentally sustainable materials to donate to young students in Haiti\u2014she named her project The Schoolbag. Last summer she and her team returned to the Caribbean country to do some additional field research. After three weeks of meetings with nongovernmental organizations and local kids, she set a goal: to deliver 11,210 book bags to the children of Haiti before school begins this fall. Why that specific number of bags? It's the date of the earthquake: 1-12-10.\n\nEFFECT Erin and her team are in the midst of fund-raising and soliciting donations for their projected fall distribution.\n\nGET INVOLVED For more information, visit theschoolbag.org."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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