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Cindy Ehlers, Ina Dunlap and Riley the pug are presented with a check for $10,000 Monday evening in the Lillis Business Complex.
Philanthropy dass donates
grant to local non-profit
People and Animals Who Serve, a local organization
that uses animals to aid in health care, received $10,000
BY NICHOLAS WILBUR
NEWS REPORTER
Graduate students in professor
Renee Irvin’s philanthropy seminar
were given a rare opportunity this
term: The chance to decide which
local non-profit organization is
most worthy of receiving the Faye
and Lucille Stewart Foundation’s
$10,000 award.
To help them arrive at a decision,
they spent eight weeks researching
organizations’ history, goals
and services.
The class awarded the money to
People and Animals Who Serve,
also known as PAAWS, a group that
uses teams of dogs and their owners
to “provide the health benefits of
the animal-human bond in educa
tional, residential, medical and oth
er community settings,” according
to the PAAWS Web site.
University graduate student April
Snell said giving this amount of
money to an organization was a rare
and memorable opportunity.
“This particular group is really an
awesome group and they will do great
things with (the money),” she said.
“This gift is going to rock their world.”
PAAWS’ programs serve almost
every need in the community,
PAAWS President Cindy Ehlers said.
The organization was started by
five Eugene women in 2003, includ
ing Ehlers, and survives because of
volunteer work, non-profit tax
status and community donations.
PAAWS’ budget started out at $300.
The all-volunteer staff members often
pay for their own books in the Reading
Education Assistance Dogs [READ)
program, their own embroidered vests
and other often-expensive supplies.
The award will also go toward
scholarships for people who can’t
afford training, Ehlers said.
“It’s pretty surreal,” PAAWS board
member Anne Kraft said at the gift
announcement on Monday. “It opens
doors for us that we haven’t been
able to think about because we’ve
been so hindered by money. ”
Five dogs and their handlers min
gled with the students in the Lillis
Business Complex, eating cookies
and talking about their projects
after the award announcement.
Students were asked at the
beginning of the term to prepare a
mini-lecture based on research of
personal areas of interests in law, so
cial policy, arts and more. The class
voted for the five best mini-lectures,
and students were split into equal
groups to further research the five or
ganizations. At the end of the term, a
consensus vote landed $10,000 into
the PAAWS organization.
Ehlers just returned from the Gulf
Coast where she and her Keeshond
dog named Tikva provided
emotional support to survivors of
hurricanes Katrina and Rita.”
“There’s never enough of us to go
around,” Ehlers said.
PAAWS teams have also been
dispatched to local crises such as
the Thurston High School shooting
and to provide reading assistance to
elementary students.
In the READ program, children
read to dogs rather than adults or
other children.
“Kids improve their reading skills
when they read to dogs because they
are an objective listener,” and it’s less
stressful for children, Kraft said.
PAAWS also provides a “No one
dies alone” program where treasur
er Ina Dunlap’s poodle, Pepper,
stays with people who are dying.
Contact the campus and federal
politics reporter at
nwilbur@dailyemerald.com
IN BRIEF
Specialist reacts to rape,
killings, slavery in Sudan
Jok Madut Jok, who was born
and raised in Sudan, will deliver a
lecture today on the Sudanese gov
ernment’s counter-insurgency tac
tics used in Sudan’s conflicts since
1983. Jok’s extensive research on
Sudanese refugee camps shows that
these tactics include slavery, civilian
killings and rape, according to a
press release from the University’s
African Studies Committee.
Jok will give his speech today in
the Alumni Lounge in Gerlinger
Hall at 4 p.m. A tea and coffee re
ception will precede the lecture at
3:30 p.m.
Currently an associate professor
of history at Loyola Marymount
University, Jok has a doctorate in
anthropology from UCLA. He wrote
“War and Slavery in Sudan,”
published in 2001, a book that
“exposes the enslavement of black
peoples in Sudan,” according to the
press release. As a black southerner
and member of the Dinka, a group
of African tribes targeted by
Arab slave traders, Jok has an
insider’s perspective on the various
methods of capture, the experience
of captivity and efforts of slaves
to escape.
Shadra Beesley
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