In just one month, NU Stands with Haiti has raised more than $18,500.
The students’ campaign to support relief efforts on the island nation surpassed its own expectations. The original fundraising goal was $8,000, or one dollar from every undergraduate student. SESP senior Megha Agrawal, one of the campaign’s organizers, said that the large sum is unexpected, but fantastic.
By Letters
To the Northwestern Community:
On January 12, 2010, the world watched as a massive earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti, resulting in unimaginable destruction. As a community of Northwestern students, we felt an urgent duty to respond.
Drawn together by this sense of responsibility, representatives from over forty student groups met and organized a school-wide campaign to support the relief efforts. NU STANDS WITH HAITI was formed, with a modest goal of $8,000 — $1 for each undergraduate student.
Performing arts groups and professors, students and social action groups, religious groups and residence halls united, planning fundraisers overnight and dedicating their annual events to the cause. The result was staggering: over $18,500 were raised, more than twice our initial goal.
By Kirsten Salyer
Northwestern began sending doctors and health care workers to provide medical relief to earthquake victims in Haiti Monday.
NU medical workers from the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital will volunteer in collaboration with the University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine and Rush Medical College.
Dr. Martin Lucenti, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial, was the first of the group of 45 volunteers to leave for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
By Roshan Nebhrajani
Over the weekend, The Keg of Evanston housed a crowd rivaling the busiest of Mondays.
The bar, 810 Grove St., played host to NU Cares at the Keg on Saturday. A $5 entry fee was applied to raise funds for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
“It was a great way to raise money,” Weinberg freshman Aleah Papessaid on her way to the dance floor. “A lot of people came out.”
The fundraiser was open to guests 18 and older until midnight. Event organizers said the night was put together in a little more than a week.
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