Although she spent more than a week in January with other Hillel students repairing the roofs of Mississippi homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina last summer, Ninat Friedland decided that she wanted to do more to help the victims who are still struggling to rebuild their lives.

Friedland, a 21-year-old visual arts and psychology student at York University, helped organize a photo exhibit and a silent auction of the pictures to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The exhibit of photographs taken by student volunteers last summer, titled "Reconstructing Mississippi: A Photo Documentary of Interfaith Relief Work," was put together in the hope of raising money for a community still in desperate need of aid, Friedland said.

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