Northwestern's Department of Spanish and Portuguese has strong links to our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico.  In particular, our graduate student Verónica is in Puerto Rico right now with her family. The department has decided to start fundraising to help her immediate family, her mother and relatives, whose homes have been completely destroyed after Hurricane Maria. Her mom lives in the Levittown neighborhood of San Juan, which has been particularly hard hit.

Donations will go directly to the López Ellis Family as they try to rebuild their lives in the wake of this disaster.