Students at Foster High School in Tukwila are striving to raise awareness of the need in Haiti, and sustain that awareness despite the media's fading attention.

French teacher Sue Pike has been assigning service learning projects to her students for years. This year the earthquake in Haiti took the focus.

Students have created posters using drawings, photographs and facts to depict the dire situation Haiti is in after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the country on Jan. 12.

Pike complimented her students on the strong emotion behind their posters. Students drew faces with tears, pregnant women worrying, helping hands holding a bandaged world, and annihilated buildings. Statistics are written to grab attention, stating the current death toll at over 200,000 people.

In addition to the posters, Pike's students from all levels are involved in making and selling bracelets for $1 each. Their goal is to sell 250 bracelets. Donations are also coming in.

Foster's Interact Club is also involved in the making and selling of these bracelets, as well as buttons, which were designed by a Foster student.

Students will be selling bracelets and buttons until March 18. If you are interested in donating to the cause or purchasing a button or bracelet, you can contact Sue Pike at 206-901-7942.

All proceeds are going to aid the relief effort in Haiti.

To assist in their service learning projects, two Seattle University students, Anna Barker and Anthony Longoria, have joined in. They are helping students incorporate their knowledge of the French language into their projects as well.

Currently in Haiti, there are about 3 million people still in need of help. People are living in tents made of tarps and blankets and the rain season is vastly approaching.

Two students at Foster, who are from Haiti, lost their cousin during the earthquake.

Students said their goal is to have people respond-- not just acknowledge the problem in Haiti.

"The feeling of being abandoned is far more painful than cuts and bruises," student Anna Tran wrote on her poster.

Pike's students have also painted the "Foster Rock" outside of the school as another means of drawing attention to their cause.