MoProBono Fall 2018 Newsletter

18 MoProBono Fall 2018 literacy tutor, meeting weekly with an adult student to help with mastering reading. Evelyn Hernandez, a client account manager in San Francisco, gets so much out of volunteering to interpret for clients at MoFo’s immigration clinics and at Centro Legal de la Raza that she is now enrolled in a legal interpretation/ translation certification program at San Francisco State. The pro bono team’s administrative manager, Sandra Nazzal, is enrolled in a different program, this one at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she is learning to become a docent who will one day enrich the experience of museum visitors. • Frank Gelat, lead client account manager in the finance department in San Francisco, was a volunteer last summer with an NGO teaching English to youth in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon in the Middle East. He has since joined the board of the organization and started a music program recruiting volunteers to teach music in the camps. This past June, with the help of a few local music ensembles and many volunteers, he produced a benefit concert (https://youtu. be/nH4IaMRcwIc ) that raised $23,000 to buy instruments and hire teachers to provide continuing music education in the refugee camps. If you or anyone you know would like to help or participate, whether as a volunteer, as donor of musical instruments, or in any other capacity, please contact Frank (fgelat@mofo.com) . • Bridget Salazar, Bay Area Lateral Attorney Recruiting Manager, founded a nonprofit organization called Global Healthcare Project upon graduating from UC Berkeley in 2004. She returns to rural Guatemala (see below) every year with volunteers from the Project to develop and implement programs that combat poverty, malnutrition, and the cycles of disease in the community of Pueblo Nuevo. One highlight in the last year was securing donations to purchase a prosthetic leg for a nine-year-old girl named Claudia in Pueblo Nuevo who had never been able to walk. The effort involved numerous trips, but, finally, Bridget traveled with Claudia and her mother to Guatemala City, where she received her new leg and walked upright for the first time. Claudia can now go to school in her village.