I just learned that I'll have the privilege of being part of a medical team traveling to Haiti. We leave in two weeks. Before I go I'm trying to collect some donations.
While I will use these funds to buy rehydration salts, gauze, meds and other supplies, a chunk of your money will go to pay a portion of my (rather expensive) plane ticket. I'm sensitive to the fact that this could be viewed as a contribution to the "M.V.Albina Travel Fund" but, instead, encourage you to see your donation as a way to have a direct and personal connection to the relief effort for the cost of a couple beers.
I'm going to put my heart, soul, and everything I learned in nursing and public health school into this work. Your generosity will travel with me.
I'll be traveling with a University of California, San Francisco contingent, and will be meeting up with a larger, well-established group from the University of Miami School of Medicine, who have been on the ground in Haiti for years before this latest catastrophe. We will be working round-the-clock shifts in Port-au-Prince, triaging patients, doing wound care, and helping those no one else is helping right now - Haitian doctors and nurses are currently on strike, and a friend who is just back yesterday reported that large hospitals were bereft of medical personnel, save those with whom he had traveled. It is a vital time right now for foreign aid workers to go do our part, and I appreciate your support as I ready myself to set off, and try to do what good I can.
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With tremendous gratitude,
Maria Victoria
