a/o 1/15/10
>>> Update<<<
1/13/10
11:15pm PST
We continue to add to our list of aid organizations (see end of post). Meanwhile, you can donate directly through four (so far) texting applications:
- Text HAITI to 90999. $10 will be charged to your cell phone bill and given to the American Red Cross.
- Text YELE to 501501. $5 will be charged to your cell phone bill and given to Yele Haiti.
- Text CERF to 90999. $5 will be charged to your cell phone bill and given to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.
- Text HAITI to 45678. $5 will be charged to your cell phone bill and given to The Salvation Army.
Also, some excellent people/orgs to follow on Twitter for the latest accurate updates:
- Wendy Harman of the Red Cross (also @redcross)
- Alison McQuade of Global Giving (also @globalgiving)
- @concern for Concern Worldwide
- @pih_org for Partners in Health
One note for New Yorkers – WhatGives!? is co-hosting a TweetUp with Moleskine this Thursday at 6pm at Rattle N Hum on east 33rd. We’ll be passing the hat for Haiti. Please join us!!
Meanwhile, we’ll keep updating throughout the days to come. Thank you!
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By now, you know. The small island nation of Haiti – the poorest country in the western world – has been devastated by a killer earthquake. At this moment, the world is mobilizing – governments, humanitarian organizations, religious groups, Facebook communities, and even the Los Angeles County Fire Department are all putting plans into motion to help.
Which means we all need to get busy. Listed below are just some of the hard-working organizations that need your money, your frequent flier miles, or perhaps your time and talents to support their work in this massive relief effort.
It’s farther from Miami to Washington, DC than it is from Miami to Port-au-Prince, but with no power, no clean water, and few emergency services, Haiti is practically on another planet. With your help, we can bring them home again.
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NBC Nightly News Report – first images out of the area arriving via Twitter.
US and International Organizations
American Jewish World Service
- dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world.
American Red Cross
- pledging an initial $200,000 to assist communities impacted by this earthquake, and is prepared to take further action as local responders assess the situation.
AmeriCares
- provides immediate response to emergency medical needs – and supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs – for all people around the world.
Artists for Peace and Justice
- supports an orphanage, medical clinics, street schools, and a pediatric hospital—the only free hospital serving the children of one of the largest slums in the western hemisphere.
CARE
- leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
Catholic Relief Services
- official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community of the United States.
Direct Relief International
- provides medical assistance to improve the quality of life for people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest at home and throughout the world.
International Medical Corps
- relieves the suffering of those affected by war, natural disaster and disease, by delivering vital health care services that focus on training.
International Relief Teams
- dedicated to organizing volunteer teams to provide medical and non-medical assistance ot the victims of disaster and profound poverty worldwide.
Operation USA
- helps communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid.
UNICEF
- provides children with health care, clean water, nutrition, education, emergency relief, and more.
World Concern
- provides emergency aid, medicine, clean water, food, education, and livelihood programs to refugees and survivors of war, extreme poverty, disease and famine – all around the globe.
World Vision
- dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
Yele Haiti
- builds global awareness for Haiti while helping to transform the country through programs in education, sports, the arts and environment. Yéle’s community service programs include food distribution and mobilizing emergency relief.
Facebook Groups and Pages (more are added hourly)
Support the Victims of the Earthquake in Haiti
Help Haiti From Their 2010 Earthquake Disaster
2010 Haiti Earthquake – dedicated to the Haitians surviving and the dead
>>> Update<<<
1/13/10
11:15pm PST
Additional Organizations:
Beyond Borders- working to coordinate their response with other organizations. If you have medical skills or the ability to translate from English or Spanish into Haitian Creole, they may be able to connect you with a group sending teams to Haiti.
Church World Service- working with partners in the U.S. and around the world to build interfaith and intercultural coalitions to eradicate hunger and poverty and promote peace and justice.
Concern Worldwide- targeting extreme poverty.
Doctors Without Borders- international medical humanitarian organization.
Food for the Poor Haiti Earthquake Relief- providing emergency relief to earthquake victims.
GlobalGiving.org- providing emergency assistance and critical necessities including water, food, shelter, and medical care.
Haitian Health Foundation- provides health care, development, relief, and the hope of a future to more than 225,000 of the poorest people in over 100 rural mountain villages in southwestern Haiti.
Hope for Haiti- supporting education, nutrition, and healthcare programs.
Madre- international women’s human rights organization.
Medical Teams International- has two disaster relief teams ready to go to Haiti. The first team leaves January 14. They are also are mobilizing shipments of medical supplies and distribution other emergency aid as needed.
Mercy Corps- exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Oxfam America- providing clean water, shelter, sanitation and helping people recover.
The Salvation Army- preparing to send more than 44,000 lbs of pre-packaged emergency rations to the country, along with emergency disaster teams.
Samaritan’s Purse Haiti Earthquake Relief- dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care and other emergency needs.
>>> The State Department Operations Center has set up the following number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747.
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screw haiti, why don’t you people help the homeless bum that can’t find a job down at the end of the street instead of someone across the damn atlantic. I’m sick of hearing about it. There are people that can’t get any help here, and nobody gives a damn it’s all about haiti.
Thanks for your comment Brian. Ultimately, we’d like to encourage folks to help anyone they want to help. That’s the “do something good…” mantra around here. As for helping to fight homelessness, we’ve featured the work that Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal on twitter) and others are doing in that struggle – right here in the US. And we’ll keep shining a light on their good example in the months to come.