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Toronto
Press Conference
Canadian Network on Cuba Announces
Successful Cuba for Haiti Campaign
Thursday, September 2 -- 3:00 pm
A Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst St.
 
Cuban field hospital in
Jacmel, Haiti, January 2010. Left: Cubans set up the fields hospital.
Right: Cuban doctors administer a tetanus vaccine. (Granma)
Map indicating the location of Cuban
hospitals in Haiti on February 5, 2010.
(AIN
Infographics)
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The Canadian
Network On Cuba (CNC) will hold a press conference on Thursday,
September 2 at 3:00pm at A Different Booklist on 746 Bathurst Street,
Toronto. We will highlight the continuing success of the Cuba for Haiti
Fundraising Campaign and present the plans for the future.
The
campaign, launched on January 18, 2010 in response to the earthquake
disaster that struck Haiti, has raised more than $140,000 to support
the Cuban Henry Reeves Medical Brigade in Haiti. The money has gone
directly to assist the Haitian people. None of it has been used on
administrative costs.
We thank Canadians for their generosity. Some people have told us they
feel they can entrust Cuba with the money they want Haiti to receive.
"I am confident it will safely reach its destination and not be
squandered through corruption or misuse," one contributor said.
For more than a decade, Cuban medical personnel have been working in
Haiti. "You did not wait for an earthquake to help us," Haitian
President René Préval told the Cubans.
Since the January 10 earthquake, the Cuban cooperation has grown to
encompass 1,304 personnel, including 679 Cuban nationals and 625
graduates and students of the Latin American School of Medicine from 26
other countries, educated by Cuba free of cost. More than 300,000
patients have been treated so far by this personnel.
Cuba for Haiti Campaign Coordinator Keith Ellis, Professor Emeritus at
the University of Toronto, captured the prevailing sentiment. "We
believe that this kind of unprecedented and invaluable help which Cuba
has been giving Haiti for eleven years deserves to be supported as
strongly as possible," he said.
For more information, contact:
Keith Ellis
CNC Coordinator Cuba for Haiti
Phone: 905 822-1972
Email: zellis@yorku.ca
Isaac Saney
CNC Co-Chair and National Spokesperson
Phone: 902-449-4967
Email: isaney@hotmail.com
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