CHARITABLE PRINTING — LENDING A PRESS

FORGETTING FOR a moment how tired and cliché the sentiment has become, the terrifying and heart-wrenching images brought into our living rooms via televised news coverage of disasters does make us pause, pity and forget about our own lesser scale problems, at least for a little while.

Hurricane Katrina, like the December 2004 tsunami that rocked the Pacific, left an unimaginable path of destruction in its wake along the Gulf Coast. In both cases, private and corporate citizens around the world chipped in whatever they could spare, be it funds, knowledge or two hands, to aid in the recovery process. Maybe it was something as simple as collecting canned food.