Your donation for Gaza

Dear friends,

During the past days, a humanitarian crisis has evolved in Gaza with hundreds of thousands of civilian people affected and needing urgent attention and help. Since a large number of people have expressed their will to help, we in the Team of Officials (TO) have been discussing the easiest and best methods of support to make sure that the help gets to the innocents suffering as quickly and as efficiently as possible. In the name of the TO, Flo, Thaty and Melhim have decided to reopen the IFMSA Health and Humanitarian Crisis Fund. So, here is our plan and what to do if you want to help:

1) Organize local fundraising events,

2) Transfer the money to the IFMSA's account under the name "IFMSA HCCF",

3) Send emails to the lists of your fundraising efforts in order to motivate others.

4) The IFMSA will collect the money and make transfers every 3 weeks to UNRWA. Thus, our first deadline is February 3rd, 2009, GMT 23h59.

5) Melhim and Silva will meet with the Officials in the UNRWA Offices in Geneva next week to further discuss ways of collaboration.

As the Directors on SCORP & SCOPH and the IFMSA President, we hope that this is just the first time this IFMSA Fund will be activated to help in alarming conflicts such as the one going on in Gaza. We are here to activate this Fund whenever you, as the IFMSA members, feel like helping people who are in need.

There are many other alarming conflicts and situations around the world which don't receive as much attention by the media as this one. This doesn't diminish nor expand all the suffering in Gaza, so we're determined to help. We hope that this Fund will give us the opportunity to decide as IFMSA where we put our attention to and where we help!

Let this be just the first of a sequence of other joint 'green & orange' initiatives.

Hugs and kisses,

On behalf of the IFMSA Team of Officials,


From Thaty & Flo & Melhim.


IFMSA Bank Account Details

Account Number: 58.52.12.090
Account Beneficiary Name: IFMSA
IBAN: NL94ABNA0585212090
BIC/SWIFT: ABNANL2A
Bank Address: Coolsingel 119 PO Box 949, 3000 DD Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Please, don't forget to write it's for the "IFMSA HHCF" so that we can keep track of the money entering out account to the purpose of helping Gaza. If you don't specify this in your transfer, the money WILL NOT be donated to UNRWA, so don't forget!




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Florian Stigler

IFMSA Director on Public Health 2008-2009
International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
www.ifmsa.org

IFMSA General Secretariat
c/o World Medical Association
BP 63,
012 12 Ferney-Voltaire Cedex
France, Europe
Fax: + 33 450 405 937

AMSA Local Office
Medical University of Graz, Stiftingtalstr. 24/EG
8010 Graz
Austria, Europe
Fax: + 43 316 873 7910

Email: scophd@ifmsa. org
flo.austria@ gmail.com
florian.stigler@ amsa.at

GSM: + 43 650 5432 432

MSN: flo_austria@ hotmail.com
Skype: medflo




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Thatyana Turassa Ernani
IFMSA Director on Human Rights and Peace 08-09
Peace Test Coordinator 07-08

IFLMS National Officer on Human Rights and Peace 06-07

IFMSA General Secretariat
c/o World Medical Association
BP 63,
012 12 Ferney-Voltaire Cedex
France, Europe
Fax: + 33 450 405 937

E-mail: scorpd@gmail. com / thatyernani@ yahoo.com. br
MSN: thatyernani@ hotmail.com
Skype: thaty_o_negative
Phone: +55 14 91248331