{"id":3552,"date":"2010-02-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"providing-shelter-hu-helps-haiti-with-tents-tarps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2010\/02\/01\/providing-shelter-hu-helps-haiti-with-tents-tarps\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing shelter: HU helps Haiti with tents, tarps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by The Bison<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:<em>As of Feb. 2, more than 200 tents and tarps have been delivered to Haiti, providing shelter to as many families, according to Harding officials. More than $30,000 has been raised for the relief effort, and SA President Clifton said more tents would be delivered to Haiti in coming days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>In response to the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, the Harding University student body enacted a relief effort to provide immediate shelter to the Haitian people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as Tents and Tarps, was born out of a survey trip conducted by freelance journalist Phil Holsinger and Dr. Mark Elrod, a professor of political science at Harding, last week.<\/p>\n<p>Holsinger, who has lived in Haiti periodically during the last four years, was brought into the project to help provide a professional recommendation as to how the Harding community could provide aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told them that I wasn&#8217;t really sure, I&#8217;m not an aid expert,&#8221; Holsinger said. &#8220;But I do have a lot of contacts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by The Bison Update:As of Feb. 2, more than 200 tents and tarps have been delivered to Haiti, providing shelter to as many families, according to Harding officials. More&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hurricane-florence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}