Here are some simple actions you can take to help and support those recovering from the shootings at Virginia Tech; if you know of others, please share by commenting:
Virginia Tech family members all over the country have declared Friday, April 20, an "Orange and Maroon Effect" day. They invite everyone in the country to wear orange and maroon to support the school, community and family members of the victims.
Ask your local bookstore to host a reading of poetry and prose about healing from violence, and pass a hat around for donations. Send the money to the Safe Schools for Kids Virginia Tech Fund.
Ask your civic leaders to organize a candlelight vigil in your town.
Download the sign, created by blogger Nicco.org to show support for Virginia Tech. Print it out and post it in your car or home window, or on a community bulletin board.
Post your condolences online.
Suggest to your local high school that they invite a speaker from Rachel's Challenge to address students about alternatives to violence. Rachel's Challenge was founded by Columbine High School shooting survivor Craig Scott to honor his sister, who was killed in that tragedy.
Ask local businesses to donate a portion of their proceeds on a given day to the Virginia Tech Family Fund, University Development, 902 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
How to Help the Virginia Tech Family
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Hey, Karen,
Thanks so much for this information.
I don't know if any of these are the same links, but I found some more here:
http://thirdmom.blogspot.com/2007/04/love-thursday-i-love-virginia-tech.html
I wrote a post talking about the times when I was in school and miserable, and remembering all the people who reached out to help me when I was a mess, which you can read here:
http://www.jennyryan.com/2007/04/18/i-dont-know-what-to-say/
PS-I think you would get more comments on your blog if you made it easier to leave a comment. If people don't use blogger as their blogging platform (which I don't) then they probably won't have a blogger username and password to use to sign in with. And if they don't use gmail they probably won't have that stuff from Google either.
I think if you set it to the option where you could either leave a comment as "anonymous", or "other", that would make it a lot easier for people. Just speaking for myself, if I get to a blog that doesn't allow either of those options, I just go somewhere else. Just a thought.
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