{"id":227341,"date":"2010-01-25T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:law.nd.edu,2005:News\/14463"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T17:01:53","slug":"robert-greene-%e2%80%9969-has-close-ties-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227341","title":{"rendered":"Robert Greene \u201969 has close ties to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/assets\/17031\/alumni_bob_green.jpg\" title=\"Bob Greene\" alt=\"Bob Greene\" \/> The January 12 earthquake in Haiti rocked the world of 1969 <span class=\"caps\">NDLS<\/span> alumnus Robert Greene.  He has participated in medical missions to Haiti since 2001, and visits the impoverished nation about twice each year. He was en route to Haiti when the earthquake struck, and was forced to return home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides monitoring the news channels, I have been getting sporadic email reports through the Sisters of Mercy,\u201d says Greene, who also worked to raise funds for Centre Notre Dame de Lourdes, an orphanage for girls and a neighborhood clinic in Port-au-Prince.  \u201cThe orphanage is destroyed and three kids are confirmed dead with others missing.  Madame Paula, the director, is living with 50-plus girls outside. Catholic Relief Services finally got to the orphanage on Thursday, nine days after the quake, with water, food, and some supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene learned about the orphanage during one of his medical missions, and has been involved in fundraising for the Centre ever since. He raised tens-of-thousands of dollars to complete an OB\/<span class=\"caps\">GYN<\/span> clinic, purchase equipment for the clinic\u2019s laboratory, and install a water purification system for the Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/assets\/17032\/alumni_bob_green2.jpg\" title=\"Bob Greene 2\" alt=\"Bob Greene 2\" \/> Now, it\u2019s all gone.<\/p>\n<p>Greene hopes to rebuild the orphanage, and has already begun plans for a trip to Haiti when the rescue effort is over and <span class=\"caps\">USAID<\/span> says it\u2019s alright to go. \u201cIf these children don\u2019t have a safe place to live, they\u2019ll be out on the street or will go to the Dominican Republic to work as slaves in the sugar cane fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene is a 1969 graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and practices law as a partner in the firm of Phillips Lytle <span class=\"caps\">LLP<\/span>, Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/lawschool\/news\/~4\/0dBmjKusY4E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January 12 earthquake in Haiti rocked the world of 1969 NDLS alumnus Robert Greene. He has participated in medical missions to Haiti since 2001, and visits the impoverished nation about twice each year. He was en route to Haiti when the earthquake struck, and was forced to return home. \u201cBesides monitoring the news channels, [&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-227341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227341","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=227341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}