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Sage Colleges Join in Global Effort for Haiti Relief
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President Scrimshaw establishes the Helping Haiti Fund to aid earthquake victims.
January 24, 2009
Troy, NY- Everywhere you go it seems as if the earthquake in Haiti is on everyone’s mind. Now, the Sage Colleges are joining the effort to help bring relief. The Sage College’s President, Susan Scrimshaw, has lived and worked with the Ministry of Health in Haiti, has created the Helping Haiti Fund.
This fund works through Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) to reach the Port au Prince area. A Russell Sage nursing student waits for news from her family there and other Sage members also have close ties.
“In support of her [the RSC nursing student], and our other Sage family members of Haitian descent or who have worked in Haiti, we will collect money to send to Haiti through a humanitarian organization that focuses on helping those so poor and marginalized that many traditional relief organizations won’t reach them,” said President Scrimshaw in her Times Union blog.
According to the New York Times, the earthquake was estimated to register 7.0 on the Richter scale. This is the strongest quake in the region in over 200, years. Still many remain trapped under fallen rubble. The current estimated death count is between 50,000 and 200,000.
“Tonight, people in Haiti are sleeping in the streets. Either their home was destroyed or they are too terrified of aftershocks to be indoors. People are hurt, thirsty, hungry, scared, grieving and in shock,” said President Scrimshaw in her blog.
If you are interested in joining the Sage Colleges in the global effort to aid Haitians in need, please visit http://www.sage.edu/haiti/.
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