An impromptu group of UBC Okanagan students working to collect donations for victims of the Haitian earthquakes successfully held a benefit concert over the weekend in Kelowna.

The event was one of several that has been organized over the past week by Students for Operation OneLove, a group of friends and relatives who got together to work with a national NGO called the Humanitarian Coalition. At the concert, everyone from the Rock and Roll club to the Latin Dance club performed to help contribute to relief efforts after the quakes left an estimated one million homeless.

The group said they have only received assistance from the UBC Students’ Union Okanagan because they wanted it to be a student effort, although their contributions will count towards donation matching from the federal government.
—Andrew Bates, CUP Western Bureau Chief

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