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Drinking Water After a Tsunami in Sri Lanka

By Adam Burke 4/11/08

A 15-minute documentary culled from 25 hours of footage and interviews with hoteliers, refugees and activists in Sri Lanka — called “2006 Sri Lanka: Business, Relief, and Water after the Tsunami,” was a project of University of Iowa professor Dr. Paul Greenough, UI cinema major Swarnavel Eswaranpillai and Harish Naraindas of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The [...]

Warmth & Security: A New Perspective

By Lynda Waddington 11/18/07

Saturday night, over 100 people converged on the campus of Coe College in Cedar Rapids to sleep in tents, cardboard boxes or other, less sturdy, make-shift shelters. The second annual sleep out event was the culmination of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week and sponsored by the Linn County Veteran Affairs and Community Circle of [...]

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