Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and in desperate need of assistance from the global community. Haiti was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, on Tuesday. No-one knows the exact toll, some unofficial reports estimate over a 100,000 dead and a third of the total population of around 10 million in need of assistance.
President Obama of the US has pledged an initial assistance of US $100 million to Haiti and Hollywood stars have joined in.
Herez how you can help Haitians :
* The Red Cross is asking the public to make financial donations to the International Relief Fund by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or online at Red Cross.
Donors may also text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given to the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts. This donation will be added to the mobile phone user's next cell phone bill or deducted from their pre-paid plan balance.
* InterAction has a list of agencies responding and how to donate to them.
* To donate $5 to Wyclef Jean's Haitian Yele charity, text "Yele" to 501501. The money will be added to your next phone bill.
* To find out how to help the International Rescue Committee,visit IRC or call toll free, 1-877-REFUGEE.
* To donate through Oxfam's emergency appeal, visit OXFAM.
There is a new event page up on BloggersUnite called BloggersUnite for Haiti. If you have written a post about the situation in Haiti, please sign up as a participant and submit a link to your post. We hope that this page will help drive traffic to blog posts with information on what is happening in Haiti and how to help the people there.
You can find the links for donating to Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF and CARE on the Bloggers Unite for Haiti Page.
Incase you'd like me to add more links and info on how to help Haitians who have been affected by the earthquake, please leave the information in your comment and I'll add it to this post, or if the info is more - create a new one.
Info copy, pasted from Blog Catalog .
Found the WAMU link on Bloggers Unite. The page has info and links to organizations helping Haitians.
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