Extended Care: SU School of Nursing aids water crisis in Tensas Parish

The College of Nursing is attempting to raise awareness within the greater Baton Rouge area regarding the poor water quality throughout Tensas Parish. Tensas Parish is suffering from the same problem that Flint, Michigan and several other cities around the country suffer from: poor infrastructure, namely piping, contaminating the water supply. By donating water, Associate Professor of Nursing, Cheryl Taylor, hopes to address the short term problem of families not having while the federal and state governments attempt to fix the root of the problem, “people need clean water, we are not waiting on the pipes or a million dollars. While all that is going on, we want every child in every family to have access to clean, drinking water.” In order to accomplish this, the College of Nursing has launched a campaign in which they are sending cases of water to Tensas Parish through the schools within the Concordia Headstart schools in Clayton, LA. The College of Nursing sent the first of many more shipments on Friday, February 1. If anyone wants to help out, they are encouraged to donate cases of water to the College of Nursing because, as Interim Dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health, Dr. Jacqueline J. Hill, points out, “There’s a need there[Tensas Parish].”