Peter Fish Project Nets $3,500 for CRWRC

November 21, 2005 == MEDIA ADVISORY

This year's Peter Fish collection at Calvin College has netted almost $3,500
for world hunger relief.

Members of Calvin's Social Justice Coalition (SJC) spent a recent Saturday
night emptying the bright orange plastic fish banks and counting up the
donations, which included several personal checks and a lot of coins.

"We had $150 in pennies, which is 15,000 pennies" says Dave Salverda, a Calvin
senior and SJC co-leader. "We ran out of penny rolls."

The money from the fish banks is being donated to the Christian Reformed World
Relief Committee's world hunger relief efforts.

Though the collection didn't approach the total from last year's Peter Fish
debut at Calvin, when the banks yielded a surprising $6,300, Salverda says the
SJC is not disheartened by the result.

"There have been a lot of natural disasters that the Calvin community has
given to earlier this year, and people were probably a little donated out," he
says. "We're happy with it ($3,500)."

Though he feels the Peter Fish is a worthy project for Calvin to continue in
the upcoming years, Salverda says the SJC wants to find ways to broaden the
campus consciousness about world hunger and justice issues. The SJC hopes to
nudge Calvin students beyond one-time anti-hunger efforts.

For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/peter_fish_update.htm

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Received on Mon Nov 21 11:38:26 2005