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island cassie
01-14-2010, 12:44 AM
With the damage to roads and bridges and the airport control tower, to say nothing of the loss of life of so many UN and UNICEF staff, contact with Haiti is almost non-existant at the moment with no telephones and no power. I am sure the aid agencies will all be seeking extra funds. I have attached a list of possible recipients should anyone wish to help - my personal favourite is the Red Cross.

https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/en/corporation/index.php?login=haiti&password=support

UNICEF Help Children :: U.S. Fund for UNICEF - UNICEF USA or call 1-800-4UNICEF.,
Operation Helping Hands: United Way of Miami-Dade and Make a gift to Operation Helping Hands,

Mercy Corps: Be the Change | Mercy Corps, 1-888-256-1900,
The Pan American Development Foundation:Natural Disaster Relief for Caribbean and Latin America | Pan American Relief, PADF.

The Archdiocese of Miami is accepting financial donations to assist with recovery efforts for the earthquake victims in Haiti. People may send their donations to Catholic Charities, 1505 NE 26th St. Wilton Manors, FL 33305, Attention Earthquake Victims.

Samaritan's Purse:
Samaritan's Purse | Haiti | Emergency Relief | Catastrophic Quake Hits Haiti

American Red Cross:
American Red Cross
Text "HAITI" to "90999" & a $10 donation will be given to Red Cross for Haiti relief. ... Please RT.

Save the Children Launches Emergency Relief Effort to Assist Children and Families in Haiti
Contact:Kate Conradt 202-294-9700 or Wendy Christian
T: 203-465-8010

Food for the Poor:
Food For The Poor | Helping the Poor, Charitable Giving, International Relief | Serving the Poorest of the Poor

AmeriCares
AmeriCares Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid Organization

Yele.org
Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 via your cellphone

A safe way to donate to Haiti is through Natural Disaster Relief for Caribbean and Latin America | Pan American Relief, PADF

Donate to World Vision
worldvision.org

Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders | MSF USA.

Action Against Hunger
Haiti | Action Against Hunger

Beyond Borders
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=28276

Direct Relief International
Direct Relief International: Emergency Response - Haiti Earthquake

Friends of the World Food Program
Emergency Relief and Response | Friends of the World Food Program

International Relief Teams
International Relief Teams

Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International | Hope is On The Way

Help Support AmeriCares
https://secure.americares.org/site/D...donation=form1
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Jananas Bananas
01-14-2010, 12:47 AM
Thank you for this posting Island Cassie!

~JaNan

island cassie
01-14-2010, 12:55 AM
Least I could do JaNan!

LilRaverBoi
01-14-2010, 01:07 AM
This is such an epic tragedy! It's shocking to even see the pictures and imagine all the people dead, injured or still trapped in the rubble. My most sincere condolences to the living family/friends of anyone who lost their life in the quake and my best wishes go out to all those with lost loved ones! I'm glad you're okay Cassie...I figured you were far enough away, but I'm sure you still felt it. Best wishes to everyone there!

Richard
01-14-2010, 01:08 AM
Island Cassie, I hope all is well with you on your half of the island.

Patty in Wisc
01-14-2010, 01:23 AM
God Bless you Cassie for this post. Some of us were worried about you. This has to be the most devastating thing that has happened during my lifetime. Watching the news tonight made me cry. Just sooo devastating. I hope your friend there is OK.

CookieCows
01-14-2010, 01:28 AM
Thank you for posting all those resources. I saw on the news tonight that in the wake of tragedy the scammers are out there preying upon people that want to help so the names of all those agencies are greatly appreciated. It's gut wrenching to see the news about this.

island cassie
01-14-2010, 01:57 AM
Thanks everyone for your good wishes - we were lucky this time but as we sit on the junction of 3 tectonic plates that are sliding under the North American plate - we are in a similar situation to California! The quake came through here as a 4 as we are on the other side of this big island, and it just set the lights swinging and the swimming pool slopping over, the dogs didn't even get off their beds and I thought they should have been our early warning system. Dumb mutts! Our house is built on a raft so that it should slide with the motion and not break.

We spent the day collecting clothing and medicines for a Haitian doctor to take back to Port-au-Prince tomorrow - hopefully he can get through as the roads and bridges are in a bad way and it is a long trip from here. In the face of a disaster of this scale we feel so helpless!

Patty in Wisc
01-14-2010, 02:33 AM
So helpless here too! I hope ppl screen out the scammers so $$ goes to the right place. Red Cross is very good around here - I hope ppl give to them as they are pretyy reliable, but just make sure it's red cross! Be careful of scammers.
Oh, forgot to mention that I felt a earthquake in '04 - '05 at about 2 a.m. I was at BF house & got up to hav a ciggy in kitchen & heard the glasses shaking & floor vibrated a little. Next day on news I heard it was effects of a quake. We never have them around here!

Abnshrek
01-14-2010, 08:43 AM
I think American Red Cross is very good... as well :^) Earthquakes suck.. One can only hope they can get to all the injured.

lorax
01-14-2010, 09:13 AM
I've already sent my donations. A friend of mine is with the Ecuadorean section of the UN disaster-relief team, and they shipped out yesterday from Quito. They're the section of specialists in rebuilding quickly and securely after quakes of this magnitude (lots of practice at home - Ecuador is the world leader in quake-resistant architecture).

Really drives home to you how powerful this planet is, that we take for granted. All in all, I think I prefer the volcano.

CookieCows
01-14-2010, 09:48 AM
I know what you mean. At least normally you'd have warning with the volcano. I grew up on the west coast and I'm kind of glad I wasn't able to go back home when we finally moved for the last time. (Too expensive to buy property in So. Ore now) My mom said that she felt the 6.5 quake they had off the coast of Eureka the other day which is a rarity for south central Ore.

How greatful I am to be able to converse with people all over the world during times of trouble. I saw on the news that facebook and twitter has been the only communication for many Haitians when this happened.

CookieCows
01-14-2010, 09:50 AM
I think American Red Cross is very good... as well :^) Earthquakes suck.. One can only hope they can get to all the injured.

Ditto!!!

island cassie
01-14-2010, 01:21 PM
The borders between the Dominican Republic and Haiti are closed at the moment as the roads and bridges are unusable around Port-au-Prince. They are waiting for the military to repair them. The only traffic crossing at present is official aid convoys and the transport bringing the injured to our hospitals which have all been thrown open to them, including the military hospitals.

UNICEF has opened a donation page Donate online to UNICEF's Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal (http://www.unicef.org.uk/haiti-donate), and the Red Cross has a link where people can register to inform relatives that they are safe Haiti earthquake 2010 (http://www.icrc.org/web/doc/siterfl0.nsf/htmlall/familylinks-haiti-eng?opendocument). Of course this will probably not be of use for a while until they restore power and get organised there.

Quite a few aid planes are landing at our airports, waiting for their slot to fly into Port-au-Prince. Strangely the duty-free area at our local airport - Puerto Plata - has just burnt to the ground this morning! Must be all that rum! lol!

saltydad
01-14-2010, 03:21 PM
And now one of the world's biggest idiots sticks his foot in his mouth again!


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A White House spokesman on Thursday slammed evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson's remark that Haiti has been cursed.

A devastating magnitude-7 earthquake hit the small island nation Tuesday.

"It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The day after the earthquake, Robertson said Haiti has been "cursed" because of what he called a "pact with the devil" in its history. His spokesman said the comments were based on Voodoo rituals carried out before a slave rebellion against French colonists in 1791.

Spokesman Chris Roslan says Robertson never said the earthquake was God's wrath.

Earlier, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that Roberston's statement left her speechless. She called it "a pretty stunning comment to make" and said it doesn't express the spirit of the American people or the president.

saltydad
01-14-2010, 03:32 PM
News Alert
10:07 AM EDT Thursday, January 14, 2010

Haitian Red Cross believes between 45,000 and 50,000 killed

International rescue teams descend on the ravaged capital city Thursday to provide assistance.


For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines (http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/46MP2V/YPV4P/1CWB92/1MDPDP/QTBBQ/7V/t)

jack hagenaars
01-14-2010, 07:10 PM
already done cassie.......thinking of all those people and their families....maybe this tragedy will bring the people together and peace and tranquility will set in, in that part of the world....

Abnshrek
01-14-2010, 09:08 PM
Well if estimates are down that much (100,00 dead initially) people are helping people in a good way :^)

Bob
01-14-2010, 09:21 PM
Thanks for caring enough to post Island cassie...

Scuba_Dave
01-14-2010, 11:09 PM
I've been watching this on the news off & on
They were just commenting on a primary school (almost flat) w/~700 kids inside & no signs of life :(

They also announced that a New England girl had been found & was being flown to Florida
So 4 family members flew to Florida to meet her w/news crew
And......no word on where she is...or if its true she was found

island cassie
01-15-2010, 10:38 AM
The Dominican Republic government is pulling out all the stops for its neighbour, and already arrived in Port-au-Prince are 10 mobile kitchens with 50,000 food rations, 39 truckloads of food, 46 doctors including 10 trauma specialists, 8 mobile clinics, 8 ambulances. This might not sound much but it is a lot from a poor country like us. Today and tomorrow have been designated days of national mourning and all flags are at half mast.

The charity ShelterBox will be bringing in 1000 boxes, containing tents, stoves etc for 10,000 people and the first ones have already arrived at Santo Domingo which is our closest airport to the border, as Port-au-Prince airport is very small and full of military traffic.

I am pleased to say that past tensions between our countries have been forgotten in the face of this disaster. :woohoonaner:

jeffreyp
01-15-2010, 10:58 AM
Where is the all the support from disgustingly rich OPEC countries????

CookieCows
01-15-2010, 11:28 AM
The Dominican Republic government is pulling out all the stops for its neighbour, and already arrived in Port-au-Prince are 10 mobile kitchens with 50,000 food rations, 39 truckloads of food, 46 doctors including 10 trauma specialists, 8 mobile clinics, 8 ambulances. This might not sound much but it is a lot from a poor country like us. Today and tomorrow have been designated days of national mourning and all flags are at half mast.

The charity ShelterBox will be bringing in 1000 boxes, containing tents, stoves etc for 10,000 people and the first ones have already arrived at Santo Domingo which is our closest airport to the border, as Port-au-Prince airport is very small and full of military traffic.

I am pleased to say that past tensions between our countries have been forgotten in the face of this disaster. :woohoonaner:

Oh I think your country is doing alot and it's wonderful that whatever caused tension between the two countries is put aside. We've always lived in smaller towns and in talking last night with our grown daughter who came over with one of the grandbabies we were trying to use examples that would allow us to better feel the magnitude of this. We thought of how many small towns that we know personally would be completely empty to even reach a minimum of 50,000 gone. Having babies in our family we thought about what it would be like for something as small as having only the diaper your baby had on or no milk and formula. That becomes a big thing real fast.

Our church has a presence over there and so far all our missionaries are accounted for and efforts to account for all members is still in progress and they've had trucks from the Dominican Republic with supplies going through when allowed to pass through.

lorax
01-15-2010, 12:21 PM
Where is the all the support from disgustingly rich OPEC countries????

Ecuador (an OPEC nation) sent 1,000 UN troops, most of them earthquake emergency rebuilding specialists, along with food, tents, bedding, and medical supplies for 50,000 people. We are too broke to send cash.

D.C._Palms_N_Sports_Fan
01-15-2010, 01:50 PM
Thank you for posting this Cassie. I posted another thread before I saw this one. Not nearly as comprehensive as yours, but it was the least I could do with the little free time I have had lately. I have donated a measly $20.00. Its about all I can afford at the moment, and the very least I could do.

Here was my post in that thread:


Hello everyone,

I just thought I would post this here. I have a good friend who has spent large mounts of time in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, who fortunately is currently located in Kumasi, Ghana, who has lost several friends in this disaster, and has many many more friends there who are either unaccounted for, or who have lost everything. Anyway, I just thought that I would post some links here to help spur those here to donate.

When things like this happen, especially so close to home, it really puts things in perspective. I know we are all busy with our personal lives, and what not, but for me personally I feel it is the least we can do to take a moment of our time, and help in pretty much the only way many of us can, and that is with funds.

Below are some places where you can make a $10, or $5 donation, simply by sending a text message. All major cell phone carriers have waived standard fees for these txt messages ( which means if you are charged on a per message basis, or get a limited number per month, they will not count against your nor cost you) sent to donate money to help in the relief efforts in Haiti. Also, there is a link to CNN Impact your world, which has a comprehensive list of reputable organisations.

So far, the ARC is estimating that around 50,000 people have lost their lives, and upwards of 1.5 million are injured, many of them seriously. 50% of all buildings in Port-Au-Prince are completely destroyed, 90% are seriously damaged, and the port has been all but completely destroyed.


PLEASE TEXT MESSAGE TO DONATE:

Red Cross: (http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.94aae335470e233f6cf911df43181aa0/?vgnextoid=15c0c5a210826210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD) Text HAITI to 90999 ($10 donation)

Yéle Haiti: (http://www.yele.org/) Text YELE to 501501 ($5 donation)

United Way: (http://www.unitedway.org/worldwide/news/newsdisplay.cfm?nid=171&MID=66) Text HAITI to 864833 ($5 donation)

Intl Medical Corps (https://www.imcworldwide.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=878): Text HAITI to 85944 ($10 donation)


For a list or reputable organisations please visit:

CNN, IMPACT YOUR WORLD (www.cnn.com/impact)


Impact Your World - Special Reports from CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/impact)