Thursday, January 14, 2010

Disaster relief in Haiti

As everyone probably already knows, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 ripped through Haiti and parts of the Dominican Republic Tuesday, leaving Port au Prince and Jacmel (two major cities in Haiti) in desperate states of need, along with many other people throughout the country. Early estimates guess more than 3 million people will be directly affected by this horrific tragedy and hundreds of thousands could lose their lives.

I doubt anybody will find this post, but I have to put this out there just in case anyone happens to stumble across it.

PLEASE donate money to a reliable relief effort in this disastrous time. Some of the better ones I have come across include:

- Doctors Without Borders
- UNICEF
- CARE
- Red Cross
- Yele Haiti Foundation
- Save the Children
- World Vision

Please, donate $5, $10, $20 - Whatever you have will help. We can do this. We can make a difference in these peoples' lives.

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