Haiti Relief Links
Pulling together Haiti relief links from my Facebook feed and elsewhere:
The White House blog has a post up citing another State Department post and offering the following suggestions:
As Secretary Clinton said earlier, the U.S. government will offer assistance to Haiti and others in the region in the form of civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.
For those interesting in helping immediately, simply text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.
Or you can go online to organizations like the Red Cross and Mercy Corps to make a contribution to the disaster relief efforts.
We’ll provide more details and opportunities to help as we learn more. To stay up-to-date, follow us on state.gov.
Oxfam’s Haiti Emergency Response Fund.
Updates from aid workers and journalists in Haiti.
Episcopal Relief and Development. (I’m picking this over the American Friends Service Committee simply because the Episcopal Relief and Development web page already has a Haiti fund up and the AFSC’s doesn’t, so I’m not certain whether the AFSC yet has infrastructure in place for responding to this particular crisis. They may; they have offices in Latin America and have worked in Haiti before, so if anyone knows of AFSC efforts, let me know and I’ll update this post.)
An appeal from the Secretary-General of the UN.
I’ll have some non-Haiti links for you this evening (some of them days old, since I’ve been preoccupied with offline stuff). In the meantime, if you’re a praying person, say a prayer for Haiti, and regardless of whether you’re a praying person, take a look at where you might donate.
UPDATE: OK, the American Friends Service Committee now has a link up to donate to their Haiti relief efforts, so I’m adding them.