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PresIke
Posts: 27671 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 7/26/2001 Member: #33 USA |
1/13/2010 5:59 PM LAST EDITED: 1/14/2010 6:55 AM
from what I hear from other reputable sources, Kim Ives - journalist with the newspaper Haiti Liberté, and Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist who's book Brother, I’m Dying won the National Book Critics Circle Award, who mentioned these on Democracy Now! this morning:
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, HERF http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html Dr. Paul Farmer’s Partners in Health - http://www.pih.org/home.html the Lambi Fund - http://www.lambifund.org/ Doctors Without Borders - http://doctorswithoutborders.org/ Forum Po Po and #33 for a reason...
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Marv
Posts: 35540 Alba Posts: 69 Joined: 9/2/2002 Member: #315 |
1/13/2010 6:29 PM
on its way.
let's all do whatever we can. |
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WOODMANnYk
Posts: 22417 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 6/30/2002 Member: #529 USA |
1/13/2010 8:36 PM
also you can go to this website:
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/haitiearthquake/ The Future. GO KNICKS!
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oohah
Posts: 26600 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 4/7/2005 Member: #887 |
1/14/2010 4:18 AM
Google has set up a portal dedicated the to relief effort: http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
oohah Good luck Mike D'Antoni, 'cause you ain't never seen nothing like this before!
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Cosmic
Posts: 26570 Alba Posts: 27 Joined: 3/17/2006 Member: #1115 USA |
1/15/2010 1:14 PM
A lot. Donating money to Red Cross or CARE or Unicef.... there is no guarantee your dollar will go to the exact cause you want it to. I think the Red Cross makes this clear. They are under no obligation to do so. For all you know you're paying for Sally Struthers' lunch!
You are best donating to the well known charity in Haiti.
As would as I said smaller highly dedicated funds such as http://portlight.org/ - a fund I can vouch for. They did a lot of small relief for Katrina, Rita, flooding in Florida, etc. They're sending medical supplies and water filtration units to Haiti. They're just fine with giving 5 or 10 bucks. I would never donate to those "text this on your cell phone!" charities. I would ignore ANY AND ALL EMAILS or TEXTS I get. Go directly to the source. Those two I mentioned, absolutely do. Did you guys see where it was found out that major credit card companies were skimming fees off of the donations to the Red Cross and others? 3% at that! After getting called on it they said "Oh, okay, yeah, we'll refund that fee!" Uhm, yeah... gotta be careful here! http://popcornmachine.net/ A must-use tool for NBA stat junkies!
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sebstar
Posts: 25698 Alba Posts: 4 Joined: 6/2/2002 Member: #249 USA |
1/15/2010 2:01 PM
Cosmic wrote:A lot. Donating money to Red Cross or CARE or Unicef.... there is no guarantee your dollar will go to the exact cause you want it to. I think the Red Cross makes this clear. They are under no obligation to do so. For all you know you're paying for Sally Struthers' lunch! Good post, but dont let it discourage you. Its dire in Haiti right now. My saliva and spit can split thread into fiber and bits/ So trust me I'm as live as it gets.
--Royce Da 5'9 + DJ Premier = Hip Hop Utopia
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PresIke
Posts: 27671 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 7/26/2001 Member: #33 USA |
1/15/2010 6:07 PM LAST EDITED: 1/15/2010 6:13 PM
yeah, i agree with cosmic about giving to a direct reputable haiti charity (of course, part of the problem is there are 10,000 charities working in the nation, while there is little government...part of why you see such a gap...where the charities/un look for their people first).
anyway, I decided to divide the donation to the 4 I listed. Some are directly helping with medical and rescue, while others address underlying, long term issues that led haiti to be in a position where they are hit so hard by such an earthquake. while something of this magnitude would cause damage anywhere, it hurts that much more because of other problems the nation has faced since it gained its independence from the french. i implore folks who are not very aware of haiti's history to check some of the good articles out there (here are two):
you can also see (as I watch CNN now) why there is such skepticism from haitians from the un and other outside groups like the u.s. military being truly altrustic in helping (a report was being made that haitans thought they were being given expired food by un soldiers because it had an old date on it, 2008, which was the date it was made, although there was also an expiration date which was november 2010). apparently bodies are being dumped into mass graves without identification...meaning no one will know if their loved ones have died or are just missing...this is terrible. Forum Po Po and #33 for a reason...
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oohah
Posts: 26600 Alba Posts: 0 Joined: 4/7/2005 Member: #887 |
1/15/2010 7:08 PM LAST EDITED: 1/15/2010 11:50 PM
I may or may not be the only member of this board who has a very personal connection to Haiti in that my mother immigrated to America from Haiti in the 1960's.
A little good news...I posted in the thread King started that my Grandmére, who is 91, was supposed to travel to Haiti on January 12th but was here in New York because she fell and broke her hip on December 4th. My cousin, whom my Grandmére was supposed to be traveling with, actually landed in Haiti 4 hours before the earthquake. We had not been able to get in touch with her until a few hours ago...she is fine! She is safe and in a city named Pétionville. However the conditions in Pétionville are pretty bad. *** My Grandmére reported to me today that the house she built 45 years ago is rubble...this is sad, but it is only a house and she probably would have been in it during the quake had she flown to Haiti a few days ago. Her entire neighborhood has been hit very hard. Her neighbor, who takes care of her when she visits, had his home destroyed too, and lost at least 1 family member. *** Conditions are unbelievable and getting worse: Roadside amputations with no anesthesia or pain medication. Hunger and disease are starting to take hold. Additionally there are still aftershocks hitting the city. There are bodies everywhere and many are being buried in mass graves, or have to be burned. Many people will never be able to pay respects to their loved ones. Thousands of children are orphaned. The effect on Haitians here in America is very tough. The statistics say that there are between 500,000 and 600,000 Haitians in America but I assure you there are more. *** I implore you to look into your heart and give. If you have no money to spare, you can donate clothes, water, canned food or dry goods such as rice, pasta etc., they are immediately helpful to starving people. As Cosmic stated, do a little research to make sure your donations are being used properly, but as Sebstar said, don't wait! I can't tell you for sure which organization is better, but I have a good feeling about Wyclef Jean's and Samuel Dalembert's organizations. Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti: http://www.yele.org/donation/ Samuel Dalembert, Dalembert Foundation: http://www.dalembertfoundation.org/donate.html Supposedly all these organizations have been vetted by CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/01/13/haiti.earthquake.how.to.help/index.html?hpt=T2 *** It only takes a little sacrifice to help. I personally have given up on some discretionary activities and donated some money. To donate goods, I recommend you contact your local church. Look in your closet and donate some clothing that you no longer use. The time is now. *** Thanks, oohah Good luck Mike D'Antoni, 'cause you ain't never seen nothing like this before!
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