"In pennies and dollars, with a few large bills sprinkled in, Silicon Valley schools are rapidly filling a treasure chest to help quake-stricken Haiti.
Within days of the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, South Bay schools were placing donation boxes in classrooms, collecting shoes and planning bake sales. And despite the tightened grip of a recession at home —and the worst financial crisis to hit California education in decades — the total has reached tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
'Haiti was already a suffering country,' said Los Altos High student Diana Chou, 17, who helped start a fundraiser at her school. 'Regardless of the fact that we're in a recession, it just seemed so much more important to get resources there.'"
