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Davis Responds: Japan Disaster Relief

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCD chapter.
In a small town like Davis, it’s important our community works to improve the surrounding world. After the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, Davis residents banded together to enact relief efforts for the victims overseas. There are boundless websites where we can make monetary contributions, but if you don’t feel like going to the impersonal internet, here are some ways people in our town are making a difference. Read below for a few ways UCD collegiettes™ can contribute to the local Japan relief project:

The SPCA Thrift Shop on Third Street, in conjunction with the Buddhist Church of Sacramento, is accepting clothing donations, sleeping bags, and blankets to be sent to Japan. Collegiettes™ who prefer to make cash donations can make checks payable to “Sacramento Buddhist Church” (just be sure to write Sendai Earthquake on the memo line).

Nugget Markets are making it easy for charitable collegiettes™ to donate. Through April 1st, all Nugget supermarkets will take tax-deductible money donations at check stands in partnership with the American Red Cross efforts to help the earthquake and tsunami victims. But the grocery chain doesn’t stop it’s generosity there: the stores will match the monetary contribution up to $5,000 to be donated to the Red Cross as well.

In addition, check stands at the Davis Co-Op and ACE Hardware are collecting cash donations through the 31st of March.

sources: www.daviswiki.org

Rachael Brandt is your typical collegiette. Her free time, you'll find her roaming the CoHo, nourishing her hourly caffeine fix or rocking out at the campus rec center in Zumba class. Rachael has interned at Acosta/Salazar PR firm in Sacramento, CA --working with politicians and interest groups to aide their campaigns. She now spends her days working at the Events and Conferencing Center, in hopes of saving up for the many goodies she hopes to acquire while studying abroad next year. After cultivating an obsession for Her Campus, she opened the UC Davis branch, and now serves as campus correspondant.