{"id":15561,"date":"2019-08-06T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2023-06-08T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:02:51","slug":"miriam-witt-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/nhs\/news\/2019\/08\/06\/miriam-witt-venezuela","title":{"rendered":"MN Student Provides Aid in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Miriam Witt, who has volunteered in humanitarian efforts around the world, traveled to Venezuela in June to provide medical assistance. In addition to medical aid, Witt&#039;s team also offered hunger relief.  Witt, who earned her BSN in 2014, is returning to the School of Nursing &amp; Health Studies as an MN student in the fall.  She decided to become a nurse when she was volunteering in Kenya and saw the medics at work.  For more information on Witt&#039;s trip visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goskagit.com\/news\/local_news\/mount-vernon-nurse-returns-from-relief-efforts-in-venezuela\/article_2cc4a7e1-80e3-52dd-8397-8249bcbe3f3a.html\">Go Skagit<\/a>.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/miriam-watts.jpg\" alt=\"Miriam Witt with child\" class=\"wp-image-28944\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>Witt preparing for a trip to Nepal in 2015<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/nepal.jpg\" alt=\"nepal.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28945\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miriam Witt and group of children\" src=\"~\/getattachment\/80229825-d6d1-4ad0-b389-78bec797c1dc\/miriam-witt-2-(1).jpg?width=150&amp;height=102\" style=\"width: 150px;height: 102px;float: left\" title=\"miriam-witt-2-(1).jpg\" \/>Miriam Witt, alumna &amp; current student, traveled to Venezuela in June.  Her team provided medical aid in several locations including the lands of the isolated Yukpa tribe.  She also worked in medical tents that offered relief to patients walking to the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,6,12,5],"tags":[172,173,174,175],"school":[],"class_list":["post-15561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-master-of-nursing","category-nursing","category-rn-to-bsn","category-students","tag-aid","tag-medical","tag-miriam","tag-witt"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":null,"link_2":null,"link_3":null,"link_4":null,"link_5":null},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":null,"button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"Contact Type","email":"sample@uwb.edu","phone":"(206) 999-9999","box":"Box 358500","address_line_1":"18115 Campus Way NE","address_line_2":"Bothell, WA 98011-8246","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MN Student Provides Aid in Venezuela - School of Nursing &amp; Health Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/nhs\/news\/2019\/08\/06\/miriam-witt-venezuela\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MN Student Provides Aid in Venezuela - School of Nursing &amp; Health Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Miriam Witt, alumna &amp; current student, traveled to Venezuela in June. 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