UC students mobilize for Haiti
By Donna Hemmila
More than three months after the 7.0 earthquake tore through Haiti, killing more than 300,000 and leaving millions homeless, a group of UC students and faculty have vowed to aid the devastated Caribbean nation in its recovery.
More than 200 students and faculty attended the student-organized UC Haiti Spring Summit on Saturday, April 24. The event, organized by UC Berkeley student Tu Tran, was sponsored by the student associations at Santa Barbara, Berkeley, San Diego and UCLA. Students from every campus turned out for the event. The effort grew out of the initial student-sponsored fundraising efforts on many of the UC campuses in response to the Jan. 12 quake. In addition, dozens of UC doctors and nurses have traveled to Haiti as volunteers with various medical relief organizations.
Now the students want to take this outpouring of assistance forward into a formalized, long-term relationship with the people of Haiti. The goal of the daylong summit at the UCSF Mission Bay campus was to connect UC expertise with the Haitian rebuilding efforts.
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