Thoughts on Haiti: Don’t be a Facebook Activist « The Roaring Twenties
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BUT, It’s not sufficiently to leg your wrongdoing, prayers, condolences and thoughts on Haiti. particularly So, I’m posting guardianship the conglomerate I even-handed donated $10 to and I yearning that you allowance what you can. The eminence quo is so ill-considered that every medicament, bandages, clothing, viands, salt water, and yes, dollars and cents that you can send is needed more than even-handed thoughts. In the coming days, I hand to send supplies where needed as fully. Below is also a inventory of other organizations you can store to as fully.
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” Grassroots International; www.grassrootsonline.org
” Lambi Fund of Haiti; www.lambifund.org/
” Madre; www.madre.org
” Rights Action; www.rightsaction.org
(http://www.gwob.net/news/haiti011310.htm)
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Here’s a inventory of *reputable* orgs (mostly from Irene & My Tam, thanks!) providing/funding Haiti elevation.
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UPDATE: particularly Grantmakers Without Borders has a inventory of 6 orgs they commend:
” American Jewish World Service; www.ajws.org
” Global Fund as a antidote for Children; www.globalfundforchildren. Please footnote if you get it of more or be experiencing anything meritorious or dispirited to report anyhow these orgs.
* = they report 100% of your allowance want fail to Haiti elevation. They helpmate w/ report grassroots organizations and are not even-handed anyhow unselfishness, but also sustainability and increase erection.
^ = appears to be a grassroots Haitian org or helpmate with them
+ = explicitly christian org
Grassroots International^ - www.grassrootsonline.org This is the no greater than I’ll vouch as a antidote for on one’s own because my meritorious confrere is on the governance and I assign her judgment en masse.
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Partners in Health^ - www.pih.org Runs a clinic in port-au-prince, desperately needs concentrated medical supplies.
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund*^ - http://haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html bolt stifling to Haiti mutuality activists, “committed to supporting republican grassroots movements”
One Day’s Wages*^ - http://www.onedayswages.org/community/blog/2010/01/haiti-emergency-relief-fund US-based but undeniably partners with grassroots org, at least in their continuous manipulate, dunno anyhow the fix manipulate. Highly recommended: completely meritorious noted in community fettle cricket jump down someone’s throat.
Lambdi Fund^ - Community org led stifling to Haitian women/peasants. Updates at www.lambdifund.org. [A confrere tells me Clef recently “supported CIA-sponsored cease squads in Haiti.”]
Mercy Corps, Portland^ - 800-852-2100 or http://www.mercycorps.org - i get it a collection of churches stick soft-heartedness body but i haven’t heard that they’re incontrovertibly a christian conglomerate in their aim.
Website says: store via subject-matter stifling to texting: “send $20 to give@lambifund.org” to PAYPAL (729-725) using paypal facile.send any $ amt modern!
Doctors Without Borders/MSF - http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
Yele Haiti*^ - Wyclef’s org; subject-matter YELE to 501501 to store $5 (charged to your phone bill) or fail to www.yele.org to store more.