Haiti Earthquake Aftermath: Photos, Video, How to Help

Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the American Red Cross or United Way, rampant corruption

Give to small charities from your Local Churches instead of the Corrupt State Sponsored Charities.

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Just gave $ to Haiti. Everyone should. It's a tax-deductible donation, so do it...now!

the UN's Central emergency Response Fund donation link:

https://secure.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/Donation2?idb=232920243&df_id=1240&1240.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=cp98eaf6y1.app28b

the last refuge of attack on blog internet board commenting systems is the accuse peeple of knot usin spellchuck instead of lookang at da facts of the argemunt.

If anyone is still thinking of donating please check out my colleagues' website: NOAHNY.ORG

This is an organization of doctors/surgeons/RNs/PAs, some of whom I work with, who have been going to Haiti for years to volunteer their services and any supplies they can carry to the Island with them. Their next trip down was supposed to be to Forte Liberte but, because of this disaster, they will be diverting their efforts to Port-au-Prince.

They will be going on January 24 and they can use any donations made to through their website. I was originally scheduled to volunteer on their June trip but now scrambling to see if I can get coverage for my patients here in order to join them. This is a great way to ensure that 100% of your donations will be put towards medical help for the people of Haiti. Please check out their website!

the difference between me and you is, i care about teh suffering of the people of haiti all year long.

shithole country, shit politics, and you never cared.

they should limit donations to people who care, because if all your $$$$ went to fixing the earthquake damage and healing the sick, rescuing the suffering and it was put exactly back as you foud it before the earthquake, youd say goddamm this place is a shithole!!!

you never cared about haiti

Glad to hear you've been caring. Now find the Shift key, spell check before submission, keep caring and watch out for paraquat. Big parts of NOLA were a shithole before Katrina, Haiti was and will probably remain a shithole after this. Full of people. Lots of people. In bad shape. So keep the folks here entertained, enjoy the weedy self-righteousess, and give thanks for your comfort, weed, water, food, adequate blood volume, originally-supplied number of appendages and keyboard tonight. Keep on Googling and caring. Every little bit helps.

I think potsmoker has a point. Nobody cared much about Haiti last week, and most likely, nobody will care a few weeks from now. Same as New Orleans. If the U.S. government has gone in, as Mr. O says, then the immediate-aid pipe is probably full; distributing food, water, clothing and temporary housing requires an infrastructure which will probably have to be put in place first by people who do that sort of thing and are probably doing now as well and as fast as they can.

Further down the line, though, as Haiti recovers and is rebuilt or not, you might be able to do something, especially if you can get to know some Haitians and apprehend their actual situation and needs. Giving to remote organizations is dubious; money tends to disappear in bureaucracies, even those which are nominally not corrupt.

However, you (most of you) didn't do much of anything about New Orleans, so I don't think you're going to do anything about Haiti. Maybe you should ask potsmoker for a toke or two.

Time to add potsmoker to my list of those to ignore. Funny, but not unexpected, but 9 posts by Felix on the dog-kick above, but not a word on a human (and animal) disaster of "Biblical" proportions just miles from our shores. And time for everybody to put a lot of other stuff aside. Heading for LGA-Punta Cana to meet up with some colleagues in DR, head overland West, see what can do. Done it before, do it again. Everybody just kick in whatever way you can: cash, articles, blood (likely big time need), faith based or otherwise. Even just in good faith. Will check in when can. And don't worry, Felix, I've done some vet stuff in the past, too.

Godspeed, Doc.

And yes, I printed a glossy copy of the American Apparel Velvet ad to keep me company :)

Take care. Your velvety mistress shall await your return.

victims are being shipped to GUANTANAMO!

ready for humanitarian immigrants from haiti.

your all talkin shat. now they are saying up to 100K DEAD, ready to get all liberal and say bring them here!

hahaha, i doubt it.

Don't forget Oxfam. In 2008, "at least 90 percent of funds designated by donors for humanitarian emergencies directly supported [Oxfam's] relief efforts for those emergencies." http://bit.ly/5iG3ap

So 90 cents of every dollar go directly to providing clean water, shelter, sanitation etc.

Is Haiti the Caribbean incarnation of Somalia?

after 911 tons of people ran to stores to drive trunkfuls of water bottles, snacks and food to groundzero. it was pretty obvious on the retail level that average comsumers were making extraordinary bulk purchases in the name of disaster releif.

did managers or store chains say no dont purchase full value retail items in bulk and travel down there impeding more important traffic, NOPE its a business, they make money. nobody said hey lets divert this 18wheeler full of pallets of gatorade to ground zero, nope they said put it on the shelves the suckers will buy it and feel good, well make more money at full retail instead of donating ourselves.

want to donate bulk non perishable foods and medical supplies, call medical supply companies like J&J and food manufacturers and ask them to divert food in bulk to those areas, depending on the average guy to walk into a store and buy items and expect them to be privately shipped to haiti is the ultimate example of retardation.

its a feel good stupidity move and the poeple in power know this and expect you to be stupid about your emotional decisions, thats how they control you in general.

you do realize how incredibly boring you are right?

surprise, a guy who calls himself potsmoker has stupid things to say

Also the Buddhist organization, Tzu Chi is usually the second in place in disasters after the Red Cross - their website is http://www.us.tzuchi.org/usa/home.nsf/home/index?OpenDocument

haiti has no real infrastructure before the earthquake

and theres no way of getting bulk retail items to haiti.

mostly likely if anybody can get a cargo airplane out to haiti it will land in some airport there and be redistrubuted and stocked by the military, police and elites and resold to the poor at inflated prices.

do not give food and medical supplies.

this is a dumb idea.

hey any of you idiots realized that some guy trapped in the rubble, hungry bleeding starving and thirsty isnt going to be helped by your text?

hold on millions of people are tweeting...

haiti is a shithole, and you never cared about these people when they live in shanty towns and subject to daily violence and political unrest.

the money will go to rebuild the govt buildings and fix the mansions of the elite upper ruling class while the lowly peons who crap in holes outside their tarpaper shacks will get nada, nothing, zippo.

Life’s Brave Soldiers Disaster Relief for Haiti, you can donate nonperishable food and medical supplies to assist Haiti at 161 Jamaica Ave, Brooklyn, New York.

This is why Google was created, right? So I put "90999 Red Cross" into Google and promptly found a slick website for mGive, a company that aggregates $5 and $10 donations and passes them on, for a fee of 48 to 70 cents per donation, to charities that sign up for monthly subscription fees of $400 to $1,500.

How do I know their fees? Because they're remarkably transparent about them, detailing them right on the mGive pricing page.

mGive aren't the only game in town. Web sites like mobilegiving.org and Concretely Ambiguous detail dozens of charities that are soliciting SMS donations, handled by several different vendors. (Concretely Ambiguous... gotta love that name.)

However, it's worth noting that Mgive, which appears to be the organization behind the 90999 donation system, has stated that 100% of donations made in this way will go to the Red Cross. It does not say whether the Red Cross has paid Mgive for this service, but in any case if you're concerned where your money is going then it would seem that the 90999 donation system is reputable.

The Red Cross has a well documented history of fraud. Another catastrophe is always another chance to cheat the good hearted citizens of the USA.

Time and again the Red Cross has been caught "red" handed in their theft of donations -- or at least withholding them until everybody has forgotten where the money went.

During the September 11 disaster, the Red Cross collected untold millions of dollars which have never been accounted for -- $564 million in donations under the auspices of the Liberty Fund.

Months later, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million to the victims of 9/11. The Red Cross said the rest would be used to "fight the war on terror."

When asked "where did the money go?" Dr. Bernadine Healy, the president of Red Cross said, "The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund."

In 1989, after the San Francisco earthquake, the Red Cross passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised.

Today the Foundations for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights claims that the Text 2Help program was a business strategy with the mask of a charity program with a simple purpose: to make money

You can donate to UNICEF who already have aid on the ground. http://www.unicefusa.org/

The UN has had resources on the ground in Haiti for a log time. UNICEF is well-placed to move quickly. Also: Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and Save The Children. The Red Cross, maybe. The Defense Logistics Agency has an enormous supply of food and basic equipment and people should demand from their congressman that that materiel be shipped to Haiti. It would help immensely and it's also stimmulative to replenish.

so your agreeing that muslim victims of disasters are not worthy of help?

google "haiti shithole" for some fun reading

Potsmoker, you definetly care about humans above other creatures!

Moron.

Great reference for the conditions in that freed slave nation.

Potsmoker- you should ask imadick for his name- it really fits you soooo much better!

This tragedy is no time for hateful nonsense- make a donation or STFU.

BTW- making my donations to yele and red cross.

Giving money to a 3rd world country = funding the upper class' mansion rebuilding fund

why is bloomberg on tv asking us to help a muslim country like haiti. shouldnt osama bin ladin be crawling out of his cave to help.

Stop smoking all that bad weed. Haiti is 80% Catholic and 16% protestant.

links to links to organizations:

http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti.html

Just wanted to give you guys at Gothamist a heads up that the link to the red cross needs to be fixed. It needs an extra w. Currently it goes to ww.redcross.org.

Thanks. This is fixed.

Yes, Partners in Health is a great organization that really strengthens local capacity:

https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage

Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat recommends sending donations to

Doctors Without Borders http://doctorswithoutborders.org/

and Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/home.html

Thank you for the links.

Mercy Corps does not have people on the ground their yet but they are working on it. They are considered very efficient when it comes to their programs.

http://www.mercycorps.org/randymartin/blog/17140

"We will begin deploying our team tomorrow and working now to line up resources to respond."

Text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 immediately to the Red Cross (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog....

thanks for the info, just sent a text out.

Gift-by-text fees are waived by AT&T for donations to Haiti. I for one, am surprised.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/13/financial/f165250S69.DTL

Does anybody here have knowledge of aid organizations in Haiti? I want to donate, but am worried about my money not making it to those who are truly in need due to rampant corruption. It seems that Red Cross is probably the best way to go. Any thoughts?

Yes, www.Yele.org is Wycleff Jean's organization.

You can also text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5.

I think the problem with aid organizations that are actually in Haiti right now is that they can't actually do anything even if they are given donations. Which is why donating to the outside sources listed in this post and comments are more helpful. These organizations can take the money contributed, procure the needed items and direct them to the people on the ground in Haiti.

Thank you. My donation has been made.

Word - just donate already!

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/haiti-disaster-relief-how-to-contribute/

i already got an email from Red Cross asking for donations.

i also know Haiti is infiltrated with missionaries so there are churches that will be collecting as well...if that's your thing.

Definitely NOT my thing. That's what I'm worried about: giving money and having some church, or other corrupt organization, benefit from the disaster. I want as much of my money as possible being used for water, medicine, food, shelter, etc. I'm afraid I can't wait this out too much longer, so it looks like it's going to be the Red Cross.

I will send money to Mercy Corps now.

Just did the text donation to the Red Cross. Thanks for passing that info along.

Horribly tragic - this place just can't catch a break.

instead of leaving comments provide info if you have it, how to help.

Everyone please come together and leave the negative comments out of this.

Share with your friends how to help the victims of this devastating earthquake.

the UN's Central emergency Response Fund donation link:

https://secure.globalproblems-globalsolutions.org/site/Donation2?idb=232920243&df_id=1240&1240.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=cp98eaf6y1.app28b