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Haiti Earthquake : Online Resources & Donations

The earthquake in Haiti, which rocked the capital city of Port Au Prince over the week, has been devastating to the already impovershed country, its people, and its already unstable government. According to the latest news accounts, over 100,000 are expected to have died during the quake or over the past 48 hours with the after effects of disease, dehydration and starvation.

The government and its infrastructure was also demoslihed, as the Haitian Presidential Palace is in ruins and a displaced President is now trying to govern an almost non existant government.

There are many websites and online relief efforts that have been set up over the past two days and as our little contribution to the Haitian disaster, we’ve compiled a list of sites that you can check out if you want to monitor what’s happening in Haiti and also make donations to the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders.

  • 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.
  • Save the Children. Donate atsavethechildren.org or make checks out to “Save the Children” and mail to: Save the Children Income Processing Department, 54 Wilton Road, Westport, Conn. 06880
  • UNICEF. Go online tounicefusa.org/haitiquake or call (800) 4UNICEF.
  • Red Cross. To Donate $10 to Red Cross for #Haiti – Text HAITI to 90999 (the $10 will be charged to your cell phone bill)”. You can also go online toredcross.org and click Donate, or call (800) REDCROSS.
  • Direct Relief InternationalDonate online at directrelief.org.
  • Mercy Corp. Go online tomercycorps.org or mail checks to Haiti Earthquake Fund, Dept. NR, PO Box 2669, Portland, Ore. 97208 or call (888) 256-1900
  • Useful Number to Memorize -1-888-407-4747. It’s a toll-free number set up by the The State Department has also set up links on its Web site to facilitate donations to disaster relief agencies.
  • DipNote – urges everyone to donate
  • TwitterMap.tv – shows where people are tweeting geographically
  • Google Earth image mapping layer of Haiti
  • Center for International Disaster Information
  • Text “HAITIY” tp 9999to donate – part of this donation will be used for another dimensione.
  • Or you can go online to organizations like the Red Cross and Mercy Corps to make a contribution to the disaster relief efforts.
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Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing ...