Philanthropic Efforts Define Port-au-Prince Native's Time at Penn State Behrend

Mickie MacNicol to continue helping others as nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital

By Steve Orbanek

ERIE, Pa. — On Jan. 12, 2010, Mickie MacNicol was a 15-year-old orphan living in the Hope for the Children of Haiti orphanage in Port-au-Prince. It was on this day that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the country of Haiti.

An estimated 3 million people were affected by the quake, and the death toll estimates ranged from 100,000 to more than 160,000. Included among those numbers were several of MacNicol’s peers at school.

To read more: http://news.psu.edu/story/524340/2018/06/05/academics/philanthropic-efforts-define-port-au-prince-natives-time-penn