Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Help support the Penn State Global Health Haiti Project by purchasing a calendar of photos taken in Haiti by local professional photographer Steve Miller. These calendars make great holiday gifts, and the purchase price of $15 per calendar will help five Haitian children for one year. (more)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Haiti is on the brink of an era of mass extinctions similar to the time when dinosaurs and many other species suddenly disappeared from the Earth, reports a biologist at Penn State, who announced on Nov. 16 the establishment of a species-rescue program for Haiti's threatened frogs and other species, including captive-breeding and gene-preservation efforts. (more)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Penn State students are no strangers to philanthropy, raising millions of dollars for charity annually through sheer hard work and determination. The students of Associate Professor of English Myra Goldschmidt's class are no different. This year's focus: replacing the school supplies of an elementary school in Haiti that was destroyed in the recent earthquake. (more)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Members of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center team who joined the first Operation Smile/Partners in Health-sponsored medical mission trip to Haiti in January and February will talk about their experience during an evening presentation and question-and-answer session on Monday, March 15 in the Edward P. "Ted" Junker III Auditorium on the Penn State Hershey Medical Center campus. (more)
Monday, March 08, 2010
A group of State College Area School District (SCASD) special education students who meet daily in a classroom in the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus has decided to donate their class trip fund to earthquake relief and rebuilding effort in Haiti. LifeLink PSU is a unique program in which Penn State student mentors and members of SCASD's Department of Special Education provide college-aged SCASD students with disabilities with a transition from high school to adult life through interactions with more commonly-aged peers and the opportunity to attend college-level courses of their choosing. (more)
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Members of the Penn State Hershey team who joined the first Operation Smile/Partners in Health-sponsored medical mission trip to Haiti in January and February will talk about their experience during an evening presentation and question-and-answer session on Monday, March 15 in the Edward P. "Ted" Junker Auditorium on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The presentation, by the Penn State College of Medicine Global Health Center, begins at 7 p.m., and will feature photographs taken by J. Spence Reid during the team's mission trip. Light refreshments will be available beginning at 6:30 p.m. All members of the campus community and members of the public are welcome to attend. (more)
Friday, February 26, 2010
Penn State Beaver students have raised more than $700 for Haitian earthquake victims through the "For the Love of Haiti" project sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA). Fundraising efforts will continue throughout March, and all donations will be given to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (more)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Penn State Berks student group "We Are ... Helping Haiti @ Berks," in conjunction with the college's Intercultural Communication: Theory & Research class, will hold its second fundraising event at Issac's Restaurant and Deli at the Village Square Shopping Center at 94 Commerce Drive in Wyomissing, Pa., from 5 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 18. Issac's has agreed to donate 25 percent of their earnings, but only for those who present the flier. (more)
Friday, February 12, 2010
To date, more than $600 has been collected by Penn State Beaver students through the "For the Love of Haiti" project, which is sponsored by the Penn State Student Government Association (SGA). Student relief efforts for victims of January's earthquake in Haiti will continue throughout February. All donations will be given to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (more)
Monday, February 08, 2010
Project Haiti is a Penn State student organization created in 1997 by Father Fred Byrne, with the intent to make Penn State students more aware of the economic differences between Haiti and the United States and to raise funds and awareness for Haiti. Every semester students from Project Haiti volunteer their time over spring break to live, work and play alongside Haitians. The students' goal is to be in "solidarity" with Haitians, which involves a true perseverance to helping the common good of all and not just a vague compassion of others' plight.
Project Haiti President Alain Bonny tells of Haitian children eating dirt to calm their pained stomachs. He speaks of his parents who immigrated to the United States from Haiti, and of the homeless families who can be seen living outside of a Haitian airport. And Bonny speaks of three relatives who were killed in the recent earthquake. (more)
