Dear all,
Today, we are launching the website for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Fastathon 2010, which will take place September 07, 2010. This annual event was started 5 years ago by two medical students (both now medical residents), Mubashar Khan and Faraaz Shah, and has two components:
1) students pledge to fast from dawn to dusk
2) sponsors pledge an amount per faster (or flat sum) to donate.
All proceeds are donated to the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP) to fund medications, social work, and referrals for EHHOP patients. Since 2004, EHHOP has provided no cost primary care for over 600 uninsured residents of East Harlem.
The last four Fastathons have raised over $16,000 for EHHOP. For this year's 5th Annual Fastathon, we have set 100 fasting participants as our recruitment goal and $10,000 as our fundraising goal. These are both ambitious goals, but with the collective effort of the Sinai community, we fully anticipate achieving both.
You can see the success of Fastathon 2009 and learn more about the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership.
Fastathon 2010 Planning Committee
Andrew Chow, MSTP V
Radeyah Hack, MSII
Maryam Sultan, MSI
Naqi Haider, Master's Student
Elizabeth Jefferson, MSII
