{"id":247796,"date":"2010-01-29T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:12:55","slug":"assemblywoman-jacobs-and-councilman-eugene-host-solidarity-event-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247796","title":{"rendered":"Assemblywoman Jacobs and Councilman Eugene Host Solidarity Event for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014As relief efforts for victims of the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti continue around the world, New York Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs and New York City Councilman Dr. Mathieu Eugene, in partnership with the Children Foundation for Help in Haiti, Inc., have organized a Gathering in Solidarity<strong> <\/strong>in support of the Haitian community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The past two weeks have been an especially difficult time for our Haitian neighbors and friends who have lost loved ones in their homeland,&#8221; stated Jacobs and Eugene in a joint release this week.\u00a0&#8221;While extraordinary efforts are under way to raise funds and supplies to provide immediate help to the region, our community continues to mourn the loss of life and the devastation to the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Brooklyn College Office of Diversity and Equity Programs and the Golden Key International Honour Society, Gathering in Solidarity will take place on Thursday, February 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Walt Whitman Theater. Felix Augustin, the Consul General of Haiti, will address the attendees and give an update on the relief efforts. Tickets for the event will be distributed on first-come, first-served basis at the Campus Road entrance to the college beginning at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several Brooklyn College organizations, including Hillel, the Haitian American Student Association and other student clubs, are still organizing drives for items needed during this crisis. The clubs will continue their fundraising efforts tomorrow, Tuesday, February 2, during common hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Personal Counseling Program has been offering counseling to students, staff and faculty who may have been affected by the devastation wreaked by the earthquake and aftershocks that have rendered Port-au-Prince\u2019s buildings useless and unsafe. More than 50 students attended the counseling workshop offered last Wednesday by the program in partnership with the Haitian Bilingual\/ESL Technical Assistance Center in the Student Center. HABETAC is a bilingual education technical assistance center funded by the New York State Education Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014As relief efforts for victims of the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti continue around the world, New York Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs and New York City Councilman Dr. Mathieu Eugene, in partnership with the Children Foundation for Help in Haiti, Inc., have organized a Gathering in Solidarity in support of the Haitian community. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247796","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\/4913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}