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February 18, 2010

Bucket Brigade for Haiti collection ends

bucketsDave Huey, manager of Central Receiving and Moving Services, organizes buckets of personal care items donated through Pitt’s Bucket Brigade for Haiti campaign. The University is partnering with Brother’s Brother Foundation, which has a 40-year history of working in Haiti.

Pitt donors’ generosity outstripped the supply of buckets. Bucket Brigade coordinator Steve Zupcic, assistant director of the Office of Community Relations, said 1,200 of the five-gallon buckets have been filled. Boxes have been packed with the overflow of donated goods.

Due to weather delays, filled buckets are being collected across the Pittsburgh campus through today. The buckets will be placed on pallets and wrapped for ship-ment  at   Central Receiving’s Thomas Boulevard facility. Huey estimated the entire shipment would equal about six truckloads of buckets and boxes to aid in Haiti earthquake relief efforts.


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