[243] MTSU-Based International Aid Group Helps At Home, Abroad

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 24, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081; WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

MTSU-BASED INTERNATIONAL AID GROUP HELPS AT HOME, ABROAD
Students Explain How They Care for “Humans in Crisis” on “MTSU On the Record”

(MURFREESBORO) – Humans in Crisis, an international nonprofit organization co-founded by an MTSU professor to help people oppressed by poverty, will be the subject of “MTSU On the Record” with host Gina Logue at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Dr. Hari Garbharran, professor of geosciences at MTSU, and his wife Heena started Humans in Crisis to help communities in other countries help themselves through education. The organization engages students under professorial mentorship in service learning to make a difference in people’s lives. MTSU students have created CampaignOne, a fundraising drive to pay for assistance to two villages in Nepal.
In addition to Garbharran, other guests on the program include geosciences professor Laura Collins; HIC Director of Finance and Accounting Jason Goodrich, who is a student from Nashville; HIC Planning and Operations Coordinator Mary Lane Poe, who is a student from Murfreesboro; and graduate student Shaparak Malek.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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