UNITED FOR HAITI at Policy

Title: UNITED FOR HAITI at Policy
Location: Policy, 1904 14th Street NW DC
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Description: UNITED FOR HAITI
A fundraiser to benefit Partners in Health (PIH)

THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 21st
7:30pm – midnight
$25 to attend

Policy
1904 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

7:30 – 9:30pm: *Complimentary* unlimited liquor drinks
Sponsored by Flor de Cana and Policy
Cash bar for happy hour specials, beer, and wine
8:30pm: Remarks from Partners in Health
9:30pm – midnight: Cash bar and dancing

Please RSVP and pledge your donation in advance at www.unitedforhaiti.net
Please spread the word to all friends and co-workers.
If you are interested in co-hosting or sponsoring a table for you and 10 friends, please email rsvp@unitedforhaiti.net

More Information about Partners In Health:
Partners in Health is a health care organization that has been working on the ground in Haiti for over twenty years, co-founded by Dr. Paul Farmer. With the destruction of so much of Haiti’s already inadequate medical infrastructure, “Partners in Health probably just became the largest health care provider still standing in all Haiti,” author Tracy Kidder wrote last week in the New York Times.

PIH’s nine hospitals, staffed with more than 100 doctors and 500 nurses, are all miles from the quake’s epicenter and escaped major damage. The organization is working to set up emergency operations in Port-au-Prince, but in the meantime has established a triage center at its headquarters in Cange to deal with a stream of earthquake victims – patients with broken bones, deep cuts and even limbs severed by falling debris, said PIH spokeswoman Meredith Eves. They urgently need funds to replace rapidly diminishing stores of medicines and other supplies.

To fully understand what Partners in Health is doing on the ground, please take a look at this clip from PIH Founder Paul Farmer on 60 minutes this week:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6108550n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.3

Start Time: 07:30
Date: 2010-01-21
End Time: 12:00