Bruno Salazar was traveling with two other Macaulay@City College seniors in Costa Rica last week. They were there to volunteer as tutors in an orphanage, and then they continued on for a few days of touring, before a catastrophic accident on an ATV left Bruno with a severe spinal cord injury that may leave him paralyzed for life.
Bruno Salazar is a computer engineer, originally from Peru; he came to the United States as a teenager, and graduated from the Newcomers High School. He has done exceptionally well at Macaulay and has received many awards including: the MetroRobotics Fellowship (NSF) and the A. Horan Memorial Scholarship. He has been at one point or another during his college career: a Weston scholar, a Rosenberg Humphrey Scholar, Vice-President and Webmaster of HKN Electrical and Computer Engineering Honors Society, and a Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society Honor Member. He recently participated in an internship in Washington D.C. for a non-profit organization called Scientists and Engineers for America. It was this experience which lead him to Maximo Nivel in Costa Rica.
A brilliant student, warm and wonderful, he was already hired by Goldman Sachs for work after graduation. The first in his family to attend college, he helped to support his family for years; his mother had a stroke last year, and his father is a health aide.
CLICK HERE TO HELP: His family needs our support to deal with the costs of his emergency care and his rehabilitation,
City College is working with us to help Bruno and his family, and we have contacted Goldman to let them know about Bruno’s condition.
Bruno is not the first Macaulay student to experience pressing financial needs — I know of students who were left homeless when their apartments burned down, students who suffered robberies, and other accidents — but this catastrophe has sparked the creation of the Macaulay Student Emergency Fund.
I don’t care if it’s a dollar or an idea; please help us in our support of Bruno and his family.
And do you have friend with a warm heart? Please forward to him and her.