{"id":218925,"date":"2010-01-19T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:law.nd.edu,2005:News\/14416"},"modified":"2010-01-20T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:06:46","slug":"ndls-supports-haitian-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218925","title":{"rendered":"NDLS supports Haitian relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/assets\/20521\/feature_haiti_story.jpg\" title=\"haiti story\" alt=\"haiti story\" \/> Within two days of announcing the establishment of donation centers within the Law School for Haitian relief, the Black Law Students Association (<span class=\"caps\">BLSA<\/span>) raised nearly $1,000 for the cause. Fundraising continues, and <span class=\"caps\">BLSA<\/span> is on track to collect nearly $2,000 to give to the American Red Cross to assist victims of the January 12 earthquake that left the nation devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur organization felt a direct call to action not only as a result of the depth of the tragedy, but because 95 percent of Haiti is black,\u201d says Danisha Anderson, president of <span class=\"caps\">BLSA<\/span> at Notre Dame Law School. \u201cMany of our members have familial ties to the Caribbean as well, and as a result, their family circles include residents of Haiti.\u201d The National Black Law Students Association (<span class=\"caps\">NBLSA<\/span>) has a historic connection and commitment to Haiti as well, participating each year in visits to the country to raise awareness about problems including child labor, gang violence, and barriers to education.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fundraising, Law School students organized a prayer service for victims of the tragedy. \u201cThe response from my peers has been immediate, generous, and overall inspiring,\u201d says Anderson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/lawschool\/news\/~4\/v34mxeYtmEI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within two days of announcing the establishment of donation centers within the Law School for Haitian relief, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) raised nearly $1,000 for the cause. Fundraising continues, and BLSA is on track to collect nearly $2,000 to give to the American Red Cross to assist victims of the January 12 earthquake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}