Get involved Press Releases is S anta B arbara's own global humanitarian aid organization. The shipments go to chronically underserved areas and to victims of civil unrest and natural disasters nationally and worldwide. Some of Direct Relief's biggest shipments last year went to help victims of the floods in India and Venezuela, the earthquakes in Turkey and the Kosovo refugee crisis . Direct Relief's ongoing local programs in S anta B arbara include PREP , which involves building sturdy, trailer-sized containers of emergency supplies for use in the event of a disaster. Our immediate goal is to have a PREP container on the grounds of every school in S anta B arbara County.
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Ken Grimwood is on hand to welcome and inform visitors at the Coast Village Art Walk, on September 1. D.C. A native of Palo Alto, California, Tighe has a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He joined the Peace Corps in 1993 as Associate General Counsel and was instrumental in opening Peace Corps programs in South Africa, China and Bangladesh. The Board and staff wholeheartedly welcome Thomas and his family to Santa Barbara, where he is bound to become a major community asset. He suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Sunday, May 28th after having been hospitalized for less than a month with Hodgkin's lymphoma, the first serious illness of his life.