Hurricane Maria Relief Effort - Georgia Tech

02/06/2018

Good news must be shared :)

https://innovate.gatech.edu/news/georgia-institute-technology-offers-temporary-office-space-entrepreneurs-puerto-rico/?utm_source=dailydigest&utm_campaign=feb6&utm_content=pr

12/21/2017

Dear all... Happy Holidays!!!

Two updates!

(1) This last Saturday Dec 16th, we donated $2,000 to the Organization Contigo Puerto Rico. This donation will assist in paying the delivery of our collected goods to Puerto Rico.

(2) The check presented here was sent to the organization "Operation Boricua - Helping Puerto Rico one plane load at a time". This organization run by Fam. Canales helped us to deliver the first group of donations back in October. We will be contributing to fuel cost of their upcoming trip in January.

Shout out to this amazing people who are still tirelessly working to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria!!!

12/06/2017

Dear all,
First I would like to thank our volunteers for taking the time to help us move the last donations from Georgia Tech to the Marietta's New Theater.
Camila Pagán, Andrea Santiago, Luis Gabriel, Luis Ocasio, Marilu Suarez, Laura Tyler Paige, Ricardo Alicea, Ricardo Cruz Acuña, Melanie Santos Marrero, and Arnaldo! Thank you all :)

from the Marietta's New Theater, the organization "Contigo Puerto Rico" will be delivering the goods to Puerto Rico during the upcoming months. We will also give a monetary donation to the organization for the transport of the goods to Puerto Rico. The check will be handed this December 16th, 2017 at the Theater! Please join us that day! There will be music, food, and a lot more!

11/28/2017

Dear friends!! Here some pictures of our donations being delivered to Puerto Rico! Thank you Julio Canales and Aubry Canales for making this possible!

10/14/2017

Wepa, mi gente! Great news - DELTA will be flying the rest of our donations (4-5 pallets)!! ✈️✈️✈️ Aubry texted me asking us to store the donations, that she will pick them up during the week. Sooo my lovely people: tomorrow, 4.30pm at Ivan Allen (school of international affairs). We are going to clear out the hallway of the building... we don't want Marilu to get fired because of us 🤣 I count on you!

10/13/2017

These are the two heroes who are delivering our goods to Puerto Rico. Julio Canales is a Delta pilot who is using his private plane to help our Puerto Rican community. His wife Aubry Canales will be with us tomorrow Saturday to load two U-haul trucks and get everything to the airport. Do NOT miss this!!

Pilot Julio Canales is on a mission -- flying his own plane full of supplies to communities in Puerto Rico hit hard by Hurricane Maria.

10/12/2017

Good news!!! Donations will be leaving to Puerto Rico this Saturday!

(1) We need volunteers to help pack the extra donations collected this week. We will pack tomorrow Friday October 12th, at The School of International Affairs @ 4pm.

(2) We will need volunteers on Saturday 9am to load all the boxes into the trucks that will be transporting everything to the airport.

(3) More info will be provided tonight regarding the transportation and distribution of the donations in PR!!!

10/12/2017

Great job team! Final count 8,500 lbs!!!!!

10/08/2017

People! We were on the news! Someone told me ~20min ago. If anyone finds the video, please share 🙂

10/08/2017

Channel 46 covering our Hurricane Maria Relief Efforts 🙃🙂🙃

10/04/2017

Some of what we have done so far! 😊😊

10/04/2017

Hi everybody! Few things:

(1) Just as reminder
This Friday will be the last day collecting donations. Please, spread the voice in your departments and with your colleagues. We are planning to send a communication through Daily Digest.

(2) Volunteering this week
So far 4 people have replied for volunteering this week. Please, go to The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and contact Marilu Suares (404-894-4452). Thank you so much for your help!

Wed (3-5pm) - Claudia & Ramiro
Thru (3-5pm) - Maria del Mary & Claudia
Fri (3-5pm) - Alfonso & Legna

(3) Volunteering on Sunday
I will create an "event" here on Facebook to give more information about the activity on Sunday. Please, sign-up so we can have a head count of people going to help. Link below.

Thanks
-Legna

The Georgia Tech Community has been wonderful supporting those affected by Hurricane Maria but we need to ask for your help once more. Please join us on Sunday, October 8th to sort and pack the contributions we have received.