Miami, FL - Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle presented a $5,000 contribution from the State Attorney’s ValuJet Memorial Fund to the Sant La Neighborhood Center at their annual gala dinner on Thursday, April 24th.

The Sant La center, a nonprofit organization, provides information and referral services in the areas of social services, education, housing opportunities, economic self-sufficiency, and access to healthcare and legal services to residents of the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami.  Sant La is also devoted to developing capacity building and collaboration opportunities for neighborhood agencies.

“The Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center is a community jewel whose value to our Haitian citizens grows day by day,” commented State Attorney Fernandez Rundle.  “It is my pleasure to help Sant La educate more individuals and families so that the complexities of our legal system are better understood, and, as a result, crime victim’s services are made more accessible to everyone.”

The donated funds, designated for “education, victim’s services, and flight safety”, were part of the punishment imposed in the ValuJet case.