The 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12th near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, killed over 230,000 people, misplaced over a million of the population, and left the country’s geography and infrastructure in ruins. The earthquake also served to galvanize countries around the world to help those who needed dire assistance.

Unfortunately, about a year later, the world forgot about Haiti. And Haiti is still suffering.

About 2% of the rubble has been cleaned up from the disaster, a deadly, yet preventable, cholera outbreak has claimed over 1,000 lives in the area, and the people of Haiti continue to suffer in relative silence.

The children of Croix Marcharterre live in a community with a newly developed church, dispensary, and elementary school in post-earthquake Haiti with dire need for financial assistance. The students are in dire need of a $2000 water well to have clean water in their community.

To combat this, we are collecting funds to submit to a nonprofit organization to they may continue helping Haiti the way it so deeply requires. Here’s how you can help.

On January 12th, 2011, the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, NSBE will be collecting funds across North Campus. There are multiple places you can donate for your convenience.

1) Any administrative office on North Campus. (Engineering Learning Center, Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach, etc.)

2) Any engineering department. (EECS, Aero, Mechanical),

3) In the Pierpont Connector, and in the EECS building, first floor.

We take both cash and checks, made out to the National Society of Black Engineers. Please give what you can; the smallest amount does more than you can ever know.