BATON ROUGE — Hurricane Katrina has had a devastating effect on Louisiana and its people. In the days following the disaster, LSU has faced a number of challenges, from providing emergency care for hurricane victims to mobilizing hundreds of student volunteers to assist relief agencies.
Providing assistance for university students, many of them now homeless, who are attending LSU is now a very high priority for our university.
The LSU Foundation is collaborating with entities campus-wide to establish the “Hurricane Katrina Student Relief Fund” to assist LSU students who have lost financial support or have been displaced due to Hurricane Katrina.
The fund will also aid those students from affected universities who have enrolled at LSU and who have suffered financial hardship and property loss associated with the storm and its subsequent effects on the State of Louisiana. Any excess funds will be made available to the LSU Chancellor to be used at his discretion for the purposes of Hurricane Katrina relief.
To donate to the Hurricane Katrina Student Relief Fund, log onto www.KatrinaSRF.com.