Ron Ruffing is a medical doctor at New England Medical Center and teaches at Tufts University.  Ron is highly devoted to international healthcare and has been taking personal time to work at various IDP camps in disadvantaged developing countries for over a decade.  At the onset of the tsunami crisis, Ron was working in the Abu Shouk IDP Camp in North Darfur, Sudan, following closely the crisis, and invited to join an emergency health assessment project in Aceh. 

A dedicated Room to Read volunteer/donor, Ron initiated this tsunami fundraiser and personally donated $1,000.  Ron strongly identifies with Room to Read founder’s vision of turning emergency relief into long-term development in such as school rebuilding and hence fiercely advocates for lasting solutions.

David & Danielle Sackstein are 12-year-old twins who are students at Ephraim Curtis Middle School in Sudbury, MA, and will be celebrating their B'nai Mitzvah milestone on 5/14.  The media-worthy nationwide "Schools Banding Together "

movement to benefit Room to Read is their chosen "Mitzvah Project." 

The campaign sells wrist bands inscribed with ”Relief, Rebuild, Restore – Schools Building Schools, Tsunami Relief 2005.”  50,000 bands have been ordered nationwide.  Both children are A students and leaders in their Student Government (President of Student Council and Chair of a committee respectively).  For more information on the banding campaign, please contact the children at blsjd@cs.com or 978-443-3007.