Haiti Relief and Donations

Student Life

www.buckeyesforhaiti.com

A student group has created a special fund through Oxfam to allow the Ohio State community to aggregate donations. Oxfam has an established presence in Haiti, and is busy providing clean water and sanitation supplies to those suffering in the wake of the disaster. These supplies are essential to preventing the spread of disease and further death.

Buckeyes for Haiti Solace

Social work students Janna Johnson and Janell Jones are coordinating a fundraiser for Haiti earthquake survivors through a new student organization they have started called Buckeyes for Haiti Solace, registered with Student Life on 1/15. The social work students are living out their professional values of service and social justice by collecting donated goods from local businesses for a charitable online auction that will benefit the non-profit medical organization, Partners In Health, that operates in Haiti.

Donation Collections

AKA Sorority Inc, Theta Chapter: Collecting Donations

Band of Brothers: Working with the AKAs to collect Donations

Delta Psi Phi (a Multicultural Greek Organization): is working to collect donations

Society of Sisters: Has laptops set up at the Hale Center for students who would like to make a donation to an organization via the web (i.e. The Red Cross, Yele, etc.,)

The Black Student Theatre Network will be collecting donations at their upcoming show.

Ohio Staters Inc. is currently soliciting ideas from members about a project or event related to disaster relief

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.: Collecting Donations with proceeds going to the Red Cross.

Hillel is collecting donations at the off-campus location with proceeds going to disaster relief.

Crista Porter, Inter-Cultural Specialist at the Multicultural Center, is coordinating drop boxes at various locations across campus. Items collected will be those mentioned on the "most needed" list provided by a variety of charitable organizations.

Hale Black Cultural Center

Hale Center collections

The Men of Iota Phi Theta are currently collecting donations to aid LifeLine Mission in their relief efforts. LifeLine members are missionaries currently in Haiti, and the mission still has the capability to ship to Haiti regularly. Information on the organization can be found at lifeline.org. Collections will be open to all, and will continue throughout next week at the Hale Center.

Health Kits

The Jerome Schottenstein Center staff, along with RPAC-Student Groups, Brutus/Cheerleaders, Coaches and Coaches Wives, The Blackwell Inn, The Fawcett Center, and The Drake Performance and Event Center, are collecting and putting together Health Kits to send to the people of Haiti. Kits will contain: 1 hand towel; 1 washcloth; 1 comb; 1 nail file or fingernail clippers; 1 bath-size bar of soap; 1 toothbrush; 6 adhesive plastic sterile bandages.

Ohio State University Medical Center

OSUMC and Haiti Relief Efforts

The Medical Center leadership has been assessing the situation in Haiti under the direction of Howie Werman, MD, faculty member in Emergency Medicine, who has experience volunteering in Haiti.

Medical Supplies and Equipment

The Health System leadership is evaluating what opportunities there will be to donate medical equipment to charitable organizations with ongoing programs in Haiti. In the past, OSUMC has worked with MedWish International in Cleveland to donate equipment. Over time, hospitals and physician offices will need to be rebuilt, and the donation of medical equipment may be even more important in the months and years to come as these facilities are rebuilt.

Pharmacy

OSU's Love for Haiti

College of Pharmacy graduate students, in conjunction with IPC, have started a fund raising drive, "OSU's Love for Haiti". They will be accepting donations during professional hour in the College of Pharmacy as well as in other professional schools and give 100% of the proceeds to the Columbus Red Cross. Additionally, they hope to start collecting some items such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc. from the students and donate those items to the Hale Center here on campus that is accepting those items for Haiti.

In addition, Pharmacy College staff is collecting donations specifically for one of our own PharmD students who grew up in Haiti and still has family there.

Regional Campuses

Mansfield

The Haiti Empowerment Project: Lab School, Funding, Collaborating Partners, and more.

The Haiti Empowerment Project brings together the intellectual and material resources of OSU and other faculty and graduate students with Haitian counterparts to assist in the development and implementation of culturally relevant professional teacher training. The Haiti Empowerment Project has been operating for the past 4-5 years in close collaboration with Haitian colleagues and is grounded in the realities of Haitian schools. While survival and shelter is currently on the forefront of those assisting our friends in Haiti, education is the venue through which substantive and sustainable change can take hold in this country. Donations to the Haiti Empowerment Project will go directly to support teacher education in Haiti can be sent to:

The Haiti Empowerment Project

The Ohio State University at Mansfield

c/o Carol Freytag, fiscal agent

1760 University Drive

Mansfield, Ohio 44906

Lima Campus students work for Haitian Earthquake Relief

The students of The Ohio State University and Rhodes State College are working together to raise funds for Haitian Earthquake Relief with all proceeds going to the American Red Cross.

Members of the Ohio State Lima Psych Club and the Newman Catholic Association are selling tickets for a drawing on Feb. 22, 2010, in Public Service 208. Two winners will receive a free weekend retreat at Susanna’s Guest House Bed and Breakfast, www.susannasguesthouse.com, on the Ohio River 20 minutes upstream from Cincinnati. The weekends were donated by the owner of the bed and breakfast, an Ohio State Lima alum, so all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross.

Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. They will be available from club members from 12:30-1:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday, Feb. 1-19, in the Galvin Lobby. For information, contact Maryann Kromer at (419) 995-8654 or Sandy Connell at (419) 303-2148.

Social Work

Fundraiser

The College of Social Work is spearheading a major fundraiser for the people of Haiti that will run until March, Social Work Month. Faculty, staff, and students will be hosting fundraising events and accepting donations to be given to three organizations: The Red Cross, Americares, and The Clinton Foundation. For more information or to make a donation, contact Lisa Durham at durham.49@osu.edu or (614) 292-4026.

Spanish and Portuguese

Latino Music for Haiti

Friday February 5 from 12:30 PM to 2 PM.
Spanish 689 presents Enrique Infante (DEJAVU) and his music @ The CRANE CAFE and a bake sale fundraiser for Haiti.