Eastern Virginia Medical School

Monday evening, March 15, 2010, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia  conducted a Haiti Awareness Night.  The purpose was to present the medical students real stories of how others have “Given Back” using the recent earthquake crisis in Haiti as an example.  Doctors from different disciplines and a volunteer from Operation Smile made presentations to the assembled students and facility.  However, the students demonstrated that they had already learned the lesson because they presented a check in the amount of $3,150 to Art Mowbray, Masion Fortuné Orphanage Foundation Executive Director.  The money was raised by the students from Haiti T-Shirt sales and collecting donations from students and facility.  A sincere thank you to Dr. Terri Babineau of EVMS for including the Orphanage and Foundation in the proceedings of that evening.  And from the residents and students at Maison Fortune Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti, many thanks to the students at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia for their interest, concern and generosity.

Some of the medical students mentor children at James Monroe Elementary School in Norfolk, VA.  When they heard that the EVMS students were raising funds for Haiti relief, the James Monroe students wanted to follow their mentors and raise funds too.  When the James Monroe students had to decide where to send the funds raised, they again followed the example of their mentors and decided to give it to the Maison Fortune Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti.  It is a graphic demonstration of the impact that our actions have on the influential young people in our lives. 

Eastern Virginia Medical School is located in Norfolk, Virginia.  To learn more about the school, visit their web site at http://www.evms.edu.