{"id":35976,"date":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/27\/unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:19:32","slug":"unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/27\/unmc-seeks-to-raise-100000-for-haiti-outreach-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC seeks to raise $100,000 for Haiti outreach fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNMC has set a goal to raise $100,000 for the University of Nebraska Foundation’s UNMC Haitian Relief and Outreach Fund. <\/p>\n

The fund — which to this point has raised about $10,000 — supports relief missions such as the one undertaken by 13 medical center volunteers who arrived in Haiti this weekend. <\/p>\n


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\nBusinesses interested in setting up matching programs that support the UNMC Haitian Relief and Outreach Fund should contact Karen Levin of the University of Nebraska Foundation at 402-502-4921.
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\n<\/TABLE>UNMC hopes to send multiple groups of volunteers to assist in Haiti, where a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 left hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded. <\/p>\n

“We have many outstanding volunteers who want to go to Haiti to help and are even willing to pay their own way to do so,” said Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health and a co-leader of UNMC’s Haitian response activities. “This fund supports their efforts and reduces the personal financial burdens on these amazing people.”<\/p>\n

Presently, there is a major need for more bedside nurses to assist with wound care, said Nick Hall, a nurse at UNMC’s hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, who is in Haiti this week. A group of people to be deployed next to meet this need is being organized this week. <\/p>\n

There are several ways to donate to the fund, including:
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