Heard on the Urban Walk

The 7^th annual Urban Walk for Haiti in Cambridge, MA raised nearly $50,000 for Partners In Health. As detailed in an earlier post, all proceeds from the Walk will benefit school children who were displaced by the earthquake.

On March 27^th, 2010, we tuned in to the mix of activists, students, vendors, and performers who came out to support PIH at the Walk. Here are just a few voices from the crowd:

Voices heard include:

GERALD MCELROY, a student at Yale University and a member of the Urban Walk committee. In 2003, he helped found the Walk while still in high school.

ZILI MISIK, an all-female band performing Caribbean, African and American soul music.

DAYCHA from City Year Boston, volunteering with a group of 60 as part of the City Heroes program.

NYRA from Boston, walking with Haitian Brothers Networking Nationwide (HBNN).

KARLEEN PORCENA, a Roxbury resident on the Urban Walk Committee.

LARRY ARBUTHNOTT, a student at Harvard University. He made his first trip to Haiti for New Year’s Eve 2010, returning one week before the earthquake.

CAMBRIDGE MAYOR DAVID MAHER , whose office co-sponsored this year’s Walk.

MARGIE THORP, a student at Harvard University and a volunteer with the Harvard AIDS Coalition. 

MAX CLERMONT, a student at Brown University who joined the Walk committee this year. He was an intern last summer at Partners In Health.

JOIA MUKHERJEE, Medical Director of PIH, Director of the Institute for Health and Social Justice, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

JEAN NESTOR, a Dorchester resident selling H-Republik shirts at the walk.