A group of nursing students at Medical Campus and professor Lori Eduartez fundraised $1,000 to install a parking meter covered in the art of Romero Britto as part of the Adopt a Meter program of the Miami-Dade County’s Homeless Trust. The new parking meter is located in front of the campus’ cafeteria.
In the fall semester of 2015, Eduartez taught a community health nursing class in the BSN program and took the semester to implement her plan to fundraise and adopt a “Britto meter.”
The program allows local organizations, private corporations and individuals to sponsor a parking meter, a collection device, to promote public awareness of homelessness and collect funds for the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust. The donations in the “Britto Meter” will aid the homeless on 17th Street, just three blocks south of the campus.
