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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/14/06
GC Sends Out Students on Spring Break Missions Trips to Guatemala and New Orleans.
Guatemala
Greenville
College is sending a team of 15 students under the leadership of Dr.
Richard Huston to build 100 of stoves in the Guatemalan Mountains this
spring break.
In the late 1980’s HELPS
International medical teams reported an alarming number of children
being treaded for burns, and, at the same time, HELPS anesthesia
doctors reported unexpectantly high numbers of respiratory problems.
One medical team leader, Don O’Neal, an engineer, began an
investigation of these issues and found that the answer was in the way
the Indigenous people cooked. His investigation proved that this system
of cooking was the cause for the burns and the smoke from these fires
caused the respiratory illnesses.
After an
exhaustive two-year investigation, Don O’Neal developed the Asher Award
winning ONIL Stove. Today thousands of Mayan families are using the
ONIL Stove. The benefits include: eliminating the burning risk to small
children, more fuel efficient means of cooking, and vented burning
within the home, eliminating the smoke hazards previously threatening
lives. There are still tens of thousands of families in need of an ONIL
stove.
 Hurricane Relief Trip: New Orleans
Greenville College
continues it’s commitment to helping international as well as domestic
needs, by returning to the south to aid ongoing restoration efforts
following the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Partnering
with Urban Impact, a long established urban ministry, the team will be
directed to the most effective places of service for their abilities.
Great needs still exist for volunteers to tackle demolition, clean up
and home restoration. Coaches and players from the Greenville College
football team will spend their spring break, March 11-19, gutting moldy
homes, clearing debris, and cleaning up inner city neighborhoods of New
Orleans Parish.
CONTACT:
Christy Grimes (
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Assistant Director of Public Relations
Greenville College
(618) 664-6515
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