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Help For Haiti

Claire Light - January 14, 2010

haiti.jpg [1]Hi Everyone! Just a quick note to help you all find ways to send help to Haiti. Moveon.org recommends these four organizations:

  • Doctors Without Borders [2]
  • Oxfam America [3]
  • Yele Haiti [4]: I would caution you about sending money to Yele Haiti, though. This Smoking Gun report [5]
    has been making the rounds of Facebook, claiming that Yele Haiti,
    Wyclef Jean's foundation, has been playing fast and loose with IRS
    reporting and with rent and payments to Jean for performing (at
    fundraisers for his own charity!) Check it out and make up your own
    mind.
  • Partners in Health [6]

The US State Department is also raising funds [7] for the Red Cross [8] with a text messaging line. Text "haiti" to 90999 to donate $10.

Otherwise,
please give generously. Right now they're estimating that thousands of
people have been killed, and that millions will be affected.

ETA: More on Wyclef Jean's foundation [9] Yele Haiti and why you shouldn't give money to them. One reason is that money given to smaller orgs often can't clear for several days, whereas larger orgs are able to receive those funds more quickly. Another note: text messaged donations don't get paid out until you pay your phone bill, so you might be better off giving online.

ETA: Moveon.org [10] has removed Yele Haiti from its list of recommended orgs for Haitian relief.

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[1] http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/haiti.jpg [2] https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1&source=AZE1001D1001 [3] https://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3641&3641.donation=form1 [4] https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=23093 [5] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0114102wyclef1.html [6] https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage [7] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-clinton-says-its-too-early-to-make-a-firm-estimate-of-the-number-of-deaths.html [8] http://redcross.org/ [9] http://gawker.com/5449478/more-on-why-donating-to-wyclef-jeans-charity-might-not-be-the-best-way-to-help-haitians-right-now [10] http://moveon.org/ [11] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/news-and-politics