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Aceh Relief Fund in the News
Audio-Video News
» WIXT News
Channel 9 - Friday, February 18, 2005.
Kari and Kelly: From Ithaca to
Indonesia
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» WIXT News
Channel 9 - Monday, January 3, 2005.
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Student searches for family
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Media News
» The Ithaca
Journal - Monday, January 3, 2005.
South Asia Tsunami's Effects Felt Here;
Death Tolls Rises
Ten members of Mahdi's family among the
missing
The news trickled in slowly, and the more Saiful Mahdi learned,
the worse it got.
At first, the Cornell doctoral student assumed his family --
living eight kilometers from the shore in the Aceh province of
Indonesia -- would remain out of the reach of last week's
deadly tsunami. ... [read
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» The Cornell Daily
Sun - Thursday, January 20, 2005.
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Graduate student helps relief effort
after losing family members
The effects of the recent South Asia tsunami were felt by the
Cornell community, even while students were on their winter
break.
Saiful Mahdi grad, whose family lived in Aceh, Indonesia,
returned home in early January to search for family members.
Mahdi, according to Mazalan Kamis grad, a close friend and
neighbor, lost 15 immediate and extended family members in the
disaster... [read
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» Cornell
Chronicle - Thursday, January 20, 2005.
Local tsunami relief effort is close to
home for Cornell grad student
Saiful Mahdi's Jan. 14 report from Banda Aceh, Sumatra, was
grim.
"Dead bodies are still everywhere," the Cornell doctoral student
told friend and Cornell postdoc Mazalan Kamis. "Many more are
expected as mountains of rubble are yet to be cleared." ... [read
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» International
Students and Scholars Office, Cornell University
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Tsunami Disaster
The International Students and Scholars Office joins the entire
university in expressing our support and concern to all those
affected by the recent tsunami in South Asia. We send our
condolences to all those who may have lost loved ones in this
terrible tragedy. We share in the grief and ongoing concern that
the entire world feels.... [read
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» Bernama -
Malaysian National News Agency - Sunday, January 23, 2005
14:01 PM
An Extraordinary Friendship
Malaysian Dr Mazalan Kamis, a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, has been friends with Saiful Mahdi,
a graduate student from Aceh, for only a year.
They live in the same apartment building, their wives shop
together and the children go to the same school and play
together. [read
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» Bernama
- Sunday, January 23, 2005
15:13 PM (in Malay)
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Sebuah Persahabatan
Yang Istimewa
Rakyat Malaysia, Dr Mazalan Kamis, seorang fellow pasca ijazah
kedoktoran di Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, hanya
menjalin persahabatan dengan Saiful Mahdi, iaitu siswazah dari
Aceh sejak setahun lepas. [read
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» The Seattle
Times - Monday, January 24, 2005.
The story of Sylvia Augustina
Sylvia Augustina has been working closely alongside Saiful Mahdi,
Aceh Relief Fund's representative in Aceh, since she returned
back after completing her study at the University of Washington
in Seattle. She found that only 211 of 1300 villagers in her
village survived the tsunami. She lost her mother, father and
dozens of relatives and friends. She is now parent to her two
younger brothers and two younger sisters who survived the
tsunami. [read
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» The Ithaca
Journal - Thursday, February 3, 2005.
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CU grad student conducts relief in
hometown
A Cornell University graduate student from Indonesia who lost
several family members in the tsunamis has received an
outpouring of financial support from local enclaves, including
schools.
The fund-raising on behalf of Saiful Mahdi, who is currently in
Indonesia doing relief work, has raised more than $68,000.
Details are available on a Web site chronicling Mahdi's
efforts... [read
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» The View -
University of Vermont - Thursday, March 24, 2005.
Alumnus Returns Home to Help After Tsunami
When catastrophe struck his family and
homeland, Saiful Mahdi G ’01 put his doctoral studies at Cornell
University on hold, left his wife and three young children in
Ithaca and flew home to assist in the recovery. Mahdi, who
earned his master’s degree in statistics at UVM, suffered
devastating personal loss, the deaths of 15 family
members—including a brother, a sister, and his grandmother—in
his home region of Aceh, Indonesia. [read
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» Indonesia Relief
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Aceh Relief Fund
Profile - NGO Local
In Ithaca, New York, more than ten thousand miles away from the
nearest ruins left in the wake of the tsunami, Saiful Mahdi, a
36-years-old Cornell University graduate student from Aceh -
Indonesia, scrambled to find out news of his and his wife’s
immediate family members. It took days before he could wind up
with any information, but what he found was nonetheless
heartbreaking: Saiful’s grandmother, sister, brother and their
families were missing. Mahdi had to return to Banda Aceh to find
and rescue his family.. [read
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» The Ithaca
Journal - Monday, December 26, 2005.
CU students steer fund for tsunami aid
despite frustrations
One year after the Southeast Asian tsunami decimated his village
of Kampung Jawa in Indonesia, Saiful Mahdi continues to help the
community pick up the pieces.
“Hopefully the small things we've been able to do for my family,
my village and my community in Aceh make a difference,” said
Mahdi, a Cornell University doctoral student. “I can only do
that with the support of the community here and my friends
here.” [read
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» Press & Sun
Bulletin, Binghamton NY - Tuesday, December 27, 2005.
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Cornell student helps create Aceh Relief
Fund
Indonesian native aids home province
One year after the Southeast Asian tsunami decimated his village
of Kampung Jawa in Indonesia, Saiful Mahdi continues to help the
community pick up the pieces.
“Hopefully the small things we've been able to do for my family,
my village and my community in Aceh make a difference,” said
Mahdi, a Cornell University doctoral student. “I can only do
that with the support of the community here and my friends
here.” [read
more] [cached]
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