Category: Extended Family
Help Fran fight extreme poverty
I’ve been living on $1.50 worth of food per day since Monday and will continue through Friday…by choice. 1.4 billion people currently live below the poverty line and don’t have a choice. In today’s world, extreme poverty and inequality are unjustifiable and unfair. Live Below the Line demonstrates the problem in a concrete way, while […]
May 9, 2012
RSTE students at the TOPS of their game
Even though it was a busy week with Convocation and Graduation, four RSTE students had the time to make their weekly trip to Gretna to help their buddies at TOPS. TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. […]
May 8, 2012
Sisters, roommates, cancer fighters
In case you missed the article this morning in UNMC Today about one of our Radiation Therapy students: They’re going to be roommates. True, Joanne (pronounced “Joanie”) Kaslon already lives with her big sister, Jenny Cich, and her husband, while Joanne studies at UNMC’s School of Allied Health Professions. But this time is different. Read […]
May 2, 2012
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