Dear NCEMSF Members,

My name is Jacqueline Law. I'm a junior and an EMT-Basic at Vassar
College in Poughkeepsie, NY, and I'm writing to you with a plea for
your help. I am founding an EMS program in an orphanage in Uganda from
scratch, and hope that after reading this message, you will help me by
donating your old supplies at the 2008 NCEMSF conference and possibly,
travel to Uganda and serve with me.

Fulfilling a life-long dream, I am helping to found an orphanage in
Kaberamaido, Uganda, a town in the Northeastern part of the country.
Since the late 1980s, the children of Northern Uganda have been
victimized by a civil war. Between 20,000 and 65,000 children were
abducted and forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves. They have
been abandoned and orphaned and are now fighting AIDs, malaria, open
wounds, malnutrition, and war injuries, just to name a few of their
problems. The orphanage I am helping to found, the Children's Village,
parents 400. Because I am an EMT-Basic, in a paramedic program, and
premed, my focus in the establishment of the orphanage will be
starting the medical facility, beginning with very basic emergency
medical services. Currently there are no supplies – not even the
basics – no Tylenol, Advil, bandages, gauze, tape, dressings,
ice/heating packs, tools, equipment, monitors, medications, nothing.
There are very few nurses, and a doctor only two days a week. Thus, I
will be recruiting and taking with me everything we need, both
materials AND volunteers. I badly need help.

This year when I cleaned out our ambulance with my squad, I realized
that there are often many supplies that EMS units replace, are broken
but still functional, don't use, or just have sitting in their supply
rooms. Just as I have asked my own squad to do, I am asking you to
clean out your supplies and donate anything you are able and willing
to part with.

I will also be taking EMTs from my squad with me to Uganda to serve in
March for a spring break trip. We will most likely work in both the
orphanage and the community, doing rotations similar to the ones
doctors do in hospitals. In addition, I will be going for a week
during October, two-three weeks during January, and the entirety of
the summer 2008. I am looking for volunteers whenever they are able to
come.

I am literally starting completely from scratch, and any and all help
you are willing to provide will save thousands of lives. Please
contact me if you would like more information, are willing to donate
supplies, or are willing to serve with us to the orphanage itself. You
will be helping me provide to these children something they have never
known: LOVE.

Sincerely,
Jacqueline Law
Training Officer
Vassar College EMS
jalaw@...
208-569-6589



----------
This e-mail sent courtesy of the National Collegiate EMS Foundation
PO Box 93, West Sand Lake, NY 12196
Please visit the NCEMSF Web site at http://www.ncemsf.org/ for more
information and resources related to collegiate EMS.