{"id":1875,"date":"2010-03-16T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:06:26","slug":"fundraising-paid-off-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/fundraising-paid-off-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising paid off for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fundraising efforts drawn to a close, the Brock community has raised $19,000 for Haiti earthquake relief, which with matching federal government funds means $37,166.08 for the humanitarian effort.<\/p>\n<p>Brock&#8217;s contributions went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Red Cross<\/a>. On-campus efforts included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bake sales<\/li>\n<li>samosa sales<\/li>\n<li>a euchre tournament and Yuk Yuk&#8217;s comedy night sponsored by the Brock University Students&#8217; Union<\/li>\n<li>an online donation portal<\/li>\n<li>donation jars around campus<\/li>\n<li>noon-hour busking by Biological Sciences professors Joffre Mercier, Fiona Hunter and Michael Bidochka, who played Irish music for Haiti donations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Campus Ministries also held a memorial service on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraising efforts culminated in a presentation by Justice James Turnbull, a Superior Court judge and co-founder of The Joy and Hope of Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past two months, members of the Brock community came together to raise money through the Canadian Red Cross for Haiti,&#8221; said John Kaethler, director of International Services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to fund raising, the group promoted awareness on-campus of Haiti as a country rather than as a crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quick links:<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/haiti2010\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Red Cross \u2014 Haiti<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1331\">Judge to inform and motivate in talk on Haiti<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1101\">Victims of Haiti tragedy remembered<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=992\">Fundraising continues for Haiti relief effort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fundraising efforts drawn to a close, the Brock community has raised $19,000 for Haiti earthquake relief, which with matching federal government funds means $37,166.08 for the humanitarian effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[133,100,16,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}