Links about the Haiti earthquake disaster

By now everyone has heard of the earthquake that hit Haiti. There isn’t much of a food reserve, there isn’t a great deal of domestic rescue equipment or personnel, and there isn’t an abundance of shelter. I recently read a report saying that none of the hospitals in Port-au-Prince were operational.

Since most of my readers are American, I’ll start off by linking to the MSNBC list of suggested aid organizations. Many groups in the list have Canadian counterparts too.

I tried to decide between Doctors Without Borders or Red Cross. It seems that they’re neck and neck in terms of their administrative cost, so I went with the Red Cross due to their shelter programs. I donated using their online donation box.

The Canadian government has pledged $5 million so far, as well as sent a DART team and put the HMCS Halifax on standby.

“Red Cross’ Communications Innovation in Haitian Disaster Relief Effort — Smart Stuff” and related posts (gettingattention.org)
“Wyclef Jean Pleads For Help In Wake Of Haiti Earthquake” and related posts (ecorazzi.com)
TD Donates $100,000 to the Red Cross in support of earthquake relief in Haiti (newswire.ca)
Haiti quake leaves Ottawa relatives anxious (cbc.ca)

4 Comments to “Links about the Haiti earthquake disaster”

バックリンク 20 January 2010 at 6:04 am #

Yeah, I heard that there were about 0.2 million of people died by for now. The condition is too bad.
Caramoan 22 January 2010 at 4:18 am #

I pray for those people who have been injured in Haiti. the earthquake in Haiti is one of the word disasters this year. I just hope that they would be able to recover soon.
ElMyers Peres 5 March 2010 at 5:58 pm #

The Haitian people has my condoloences. The recent earthquake was a tragedy.
Eugee 27 December 2012 at 4:54 am #

What sadness.. My uncle is from Port au Prince Haiti and he still has some flamiy there.. I gave a donation this morning and sent my prayers up. I read that the quake was only like 35-40 seconds and look at the damage is devastation those few seconds caused. Glad to see that people still care about “brown” people.