The national fundraising by credit unions and their members to help victims of the Japanese disaster turned Monday to shoe collection and the sale of print art.
In Lafayette, La., the $40 million University of Louisiana FCU has collected more than 50 pairs of shoes so far for shipment to Japan in a campaign it launched locally among businesses that has since spread elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the $154 million Peninsula CU of Shelton, Wash. said it was "astounded" at the member response to the sale of print art of a rendering of a Japanese coastal community heavily damaged in the tsunami. The sketch, drawn by a Port Orchard, Wash. artist showed the community before it suffered destruction.
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