FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18, 2007
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or Karen Case, 615-898-5087 or 615-427-9411
International, Refugee Students Need Help to Continue Studies
(MURFREESBORO) – Community Assistance for International and Refugee Students (CAIRS) will conduct a yard sale from 8 a.m. until noon Saturday, April 28, at the St. Rose of Lima School gymnasium, 1601 N. Tennessee Blvd., in Murfreesboro.
CAIRS is a not-for-profit organization that helps international students who are at MTSU on student visas or who have come to the U.S. permanently as refugees. Frequently, these students have no family support and work at minimum wage jobs to cover tuition with no money left over for health insurance or groceries.
In the two short years CAIRS has been in existence, the fund has assisted MTSU students from India, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Turkey with small grants and loans. These modest amounts of money help financially struggling students from countries devastated by war, terrorism, and famine cope with the relatively minor emergencies of American life, such as car breakdowns, stolen books and bikes, and layoffs.
Donations will be accepted from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, April 27, at the gym. Volunteers also are welcome to pitch in and help.
For more information, contact Karen Case at 615-427-9411 or kcase@mtsu.edu.
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