I make rare appeals on this blog for help/support/etc., but was touched by an e-mail I received today from a wonderful and brilliant friend of mine from grad school.

Jen, currently studying medicine in Philadelphia, spent six months as an intern with BU’s Center for Global Health and Development in Zambia. “Mama G” worked with the health programs run by CGHD, and was a constant in Jen’s e-mails and stories from the field. Unfortunately, she was killed in a tragic road accident shortly after Jen returned Stateside. Read Jen’s request below:

The address, in larger print:

Violet Chisapi Memorial Education Fund c/o Donald Thea; Crosstown Building Room 332; BUSPH; 801 Massachusetts Avenue; Boston MA 02118