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Hurricane Student Relief Fund

Benefitting Students affected by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

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Hurricane Student Relief Fund establishes application procedure. more...

The 800-bed medical facility at LSU was the largest acute care field hospital ever created in U. S. history and was the largest acute

care hospital in Louisiana, according to Chris Trevino, M. D., the medical director of the facility.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have 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… and we need your help.

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 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 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 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relief.

To make an immediate impact with an online gift using a credit card please click here.

If you would like to donate by check, please make the check payable to the LSU Foundation and indicate on the check that it is intended for the Hurricane Student Relief Fund. You can mail your check to: Hurricane Katrina Student Relief Fund, c/o LSU Foundation, 3838 W. Lakeshore Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808

At this moment of agony for so many, institutions of the Louisiana State University System also need your urgent financial help to assist in rebuilding educational facilities, repairing hospitals and health care services, and caring for our students left destitute. To donate to the institutions of the LSU System, please click here.

Volunteers wait for another round of patients to arrive at the field hospital facility established in LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center (PMAC). Nearly two dozen pediatric cases have been seen at the PMAC.