Haiti Earthquake News & Resources → Boston.com The Big Picture: Earthquake in Haiti. Global Grind Haiti Coverage. Haiti on YouTube Twitter.com #Haiti - Immediate updates and links Excellent coverage of Haiti from Twitter user @mparent77772 Follow Haiti developments on Twitter from CNN Journalists on the ground Alltop: Top Haiti News MSNBC: A list of charitable organizations active in the nation Haiti quake: Boston resources and events - Boston.com Worldly blog 2010 Haiti earthquake - Wikipedia Impact your World CNN page with links to ‘how you can help’ Automatically donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti by texting “HAITI” to 90999. Haiti: A primer. Mashable Coverage on Haiti with 9 ways to help now & Twitter Pictures. More photos from the Haiti Earthquake Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead - NYTimes.com, 01/13  Gleaning Information From Haiti Online - NYTimes Lede blog (updated frequently) Reuters Live Blog United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Photo slide show of destruction Video by Associated Press British Red Cross photo gallery from Haiti on Flickr Oxfam Relief Video: Haiti at Risk FlyDominicanRepublic : Pilots Guide to Hispaniola/Air support information Latest Geo-Eye satellite imagery Raw Footage: Devastation After Earthquake Hits Haiti Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti Carelp’s Flickr Photostream Help Haiti Recover → If you have a few dollars to spare, please think about pitching in to one or several of these charities to help those who are in desperate need. I’m linking several charities below who can use your money to help the Haitian earthquake victims. How to check out a charity UNICEF has a direct link to help children who are victims of the quake The Red Cross of course Mercy Corp allows donations to be directed to help with humanitarian efforts which are desperately needed in the aftermath of this catastrophe. Partners in Health provide healthcare for the impoverished have set up a link for the Haitian earthquake relief. Doctors Without Borders has set up a link so your donations will support emergency medical care for the survivors of the quake. Text Yele. Wyclef Jean is urging donors to text ‘Yele’ to 501501 and make a $5 contribution to the relief effort over cell phone.  Click here to get more information via Wyclef’s Twitter page. Other ways to help Haiti, including more charities can be found here and here. You may also use your cellphone text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief efforts in Haiti. (The charge will appear on your next cellphone bill) Forbes has an article about how to spot scam charity websites. Google Crisis Response: Support Disaster Relief in Haiti What you can do for Haiti → Get ready for a long haul. Usually, disasters like this see a huge outpouring of cash and interest in the immediate aftermath, which almost all disappears within the first 6-12 months. This disaster was large enough that it is going to take years, if not decades, to rebuild. The most important thing you can do moving forward is to keep thinking, writing, and talking about Haiti as we move past the immediate impact. They will need help and resources for quite a while to come. Get interested in global poverty issues. This earthquake was so destructive in large part because of the extreme poverty in pre-earthquake Haiti, which meant that buildings weren’t reinforced, disaster preparation wasn’t done, and the barely adequate medical system was completely overwhelmed. These are situations that exist in lots of other countries that could be affected by disaster – we can do work NOW to make sure they’re better equipped to survive such an event. Learn about US political involvement in Haiti and policies toward Haiti. We’ve been – for lack of a better term – fucking around in their country since it became independent and have occupied it for significant lengths of time. We’ve trained their dictators, influenced their elections, and encouraged some of their destructive policies. Some of this is on our head as a nation. We bear responsibility. Learn about it, talk about it. A final goodbye before ‘everything fell’ → From CNN, excerpt: (CNN) — On Friday Martin Poitevien said goodbye to her parents at Miami International Airport before they flew home to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “My mom is a worrier so I just told her, ‘Stop with your worry. Go home and enjoy your life with Dad. Go home and have the happiness and peace you’ve earned and deserve.’ I will remember this always because she didn’t say anything. She just smiled,” Poitevien said in a phone interview Wednesday. Four days after the visit, a few hours after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital, Poitevien’s brother called to say he had gone to their parents’ house to make sure they were all right. He saw his father’s feet poking up from the rubble. Seventy-five-year-old Fede Poitevien died in his living room. By Wednesday, Innocent Poitevien’s body also was found, her daughter said. The couple had spent their lives in one of the Haiti’s most depressed districts, Carrefour. In a nation considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest, the Poiteviens worked tirelessly to maintain the family pharmacy, putting every cent toward their children’s educations.

Haiti Earthquake News & Resources →

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  • Help Haiti Recover →

If you have a few dollars to spare, please think about pitching in to one or several of these charities to help those who are in desperate need. I’m linking several charities below who can use your money to help the Haitian earthquake victims.

  • What you can do for Haiti →

  • Get ready for a long haul. Usually, disasters like this see a huge outpouring of cash and interest in the immediate aftermath, which almost all disappears within the first 6-12 months. This disaster was large enough that it is going to take years, if not decades, to rebuild. The most important thing you can do moving forward is to keep thinking, writing, and talking about Haiti as we move past the immediate impact. They will need help and resources for quite a while to come.
  • Get interested in global poverty issues. This earthquake was so destructive in large part because of the extreme poverty in pre-earthquake Haiti, which meant that buildings weren’t reinforced, disaster preparation wasn’t done, and the barely adequate medical system was completely overwhelmed. These are situations that exist in lots of other countries that could be affected by disaster – we can do work NOW to make sure they’re better equipped to survive such an event.
  • Learn about US political involvement in Haiti and policies toward Haiti. We’ve been – for lack of a better term – fucking around in their country since it became independent and have occupied it for significant lengths of time. We’ve trained their dictators, influenced their elections, and encouraged some of their destructive policies. Some of this is on our head as a nation. We bear responsibility. Learn about it, talk about it.

  • A final goodbye before ‘everything fell’ →

From CNN, excerpt:

(CNN) — On Friday Martin Poitevien said goodbye to her parents at Miami International Airport before they flew home to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

“My mom is a worrier so I just told her, ‘Stop with your worry. Go home and enjoy your life with Dad. Go home and have the happiness and peace you’ve earned and deserve.’ I will remember this always because she didn’t say anything. She just smiled,” Poitevien said in a phone interview Wednesday.

Four days after the visit, a few hours after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital, Poitevien’s brother called to say he had gone to their parents’ house to make sure they were all right. He saw his father’s feet poking up from the rubble. Seventy-five-year-old Fede Poitevien died in his living room. By Wednesday, Innocent Poitevien’s body also was found, her daughter said.

The couple had spent their lives in one of the Haiti’s most depressed districts, Carrefour. In a nation considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest, the Poiteviens worked tirelessly to maintain the family pharmacy, putting every cent toward their children’s educations.

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