LIU Students Visit Haiti On a Health Care Mission
BROOKLYN — More than a dozen students and several faculty members from LIU Brooklyn’s School of Nursing and LIU Pharmacy (The Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) are back from an international health care volunteer mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
“It was a great learning experience,” said volunteer Sonya Pereira-Edwards, a student in the CEO/HHC Nursing Career Ladder Program, adding, “not just from a nursing perspective but from a human perspective. People who had lost everything somehow still found the resilience and hope to go on.”
The Nursing Career Ladder Program, located at Kings County Hospital Center, is funded by Mayor Bloomberg’s Center for Economic Opportunity Program (CEO) and is a joint effort by LIU’s School of Nursing and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC).