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Our Hearts Go Out to Haiti
As at so many organizations, we have supporters and friends and families in the nation’s Haitian community—particularly in Brooklyn, where our outreach center serves the large Haitian community with lupus there—who are suffering profoundly from the loss of so many loved ones.
SA OU DWE KONNEN SOU MALADI KI RELE LOUPOUS LA
(Creole for What You Should Know About Lupus)
In reaching out as you have done for so many who suffer from lupus, please join us now in contributing to organizations on the ground in Haiti tending to the homeless, hungry, and injured.
The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and Councilman Mathieu Eugene, New York City’s first Haitian-born council member, recommend donations to such organizations as:
Fifty percent of Haitians are children, a group that tends to develop particularly severe damage
and other complications
when lupus strikes.
Free Lupus Information Line
—in English/Spanish/Creole—
is at 1-800-74-LUPUS
