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WRAPPING UP CHRISTMAS:
UH LAW CENTER DONATES TOYS
Law Students’ Gift Drive Benefits Disadvantaged Children
HOUSTON, Dec. 9, 2004 – Children from Wheeler Avenue Baptist
Church and The Children’s Assessment Center will receive a
special delivery this holiday season thanks to the elves of the
University of Houston Center for Consumer Law and several law student
organizations. Volunteers came together recently to raise money
to purchase toys for disadvantaged children.
The UH Law Center’s holiday cheer team has been working with
the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and The Children’s Assessment
Center for 15 years. Professor Richard Alderman, director of the
Center for Consumer Law and the Dwight Olds Chair in Law, directs
the project.
Volunteers collected $3,500 from UH Law Center students, faculty
and staff through a raffle and donations. Approximately 100 people
went shopping for more than 200 gifts then wrapped them.
The beneficiary organizations will give the toys to the children
on Christmas day.
The toy drive has a special significance to the Law Center, according
to Alderman. “Most law students recognize that part of being
a lawyer is serving your community,” he said. “This
is just a small way of helping the many underprivileged children
in Houston.”
For more information about the Center for Consumer Law, go to http://www.law.uh.edu/peopleslaw/.
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