Donate to Haiti
- Thread starter LeSchmick
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+1. I have no idea if the OP's info is legit, but for some reason people like making up stuff about Haiti relief efforts:
Twitter hoax spreads rumors of airlines' free flights to Haiti - CNN.com
The President on Haiti: "The First Waves of our Rescue and Relief Workers are on the Ground and at Work" | The White House
This seems like a credible website.
This seems like a credible website.
Also,
Haitian-American rapper Wyclef Jean's foundation to rebuild Haiti, Yéle, is also accepting text-message donations. Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5, which will be added to your next phone bill. You can also donate via the Yéle Foundation's website.
EDIT: The website is: http://www.yele.org/
Haitian-American rapper Wyclef Jean's foundation to rebuild Haiti, Yéle, is also accepting text-message donations. Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5, which will be added to your next phone bill. You can also donate via the Yéle Foundation's website.
EDIT: The website is: http://www.yele.org/
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What makes you think that is the BEST way to deal with this place? Most short sighted ignorant post of the new year so far.
Most short sighted ignorant post of the new year so far?
Haiti was a garbage dump before the earthquake. It had little clean water, no sewer system, extreme evironmental problems, and rampant disease problems. Now it has all these problems times about a billion.
Of course we need to get down and help with the medical and rescue but when it comes to rebuilding we seriously need to consider some other options. There have been about 10 major disasters there in the last decade. They haven't even come close to recovering from the storms from last year. We need to get people out of there and clean the place up. People shouldn't live in a place like Haiti with pre-quake conditions. That place is going to deteriorate even further now and we'll set up some shelters and rebuild some building but it would take tens of billions to make that place a non-garbage dump.
Haiti was a garbage dump before the earthquake. It had little clean water, no sewer system, extreme evironmental problems, and rampant disease problems. Now it has all these problems times about a billion.
Of course we need to get down and help with the medical and rescue but when it comes to rebuilding we seriously need to consider some other options. There have been about 10 major disasters there in the last decade. They haven't even come close to recovering from the storms from last year. We need to get people out of there and clean the place up. People shouldn't live in a place like Haiti with pre-quake conditions. That place is going to deteriorate even further now and we'll set up some shelters and rebuild some building but it would take tens of billions to make that place a non-garbage dump.
Let's not turn this into an argument. The bottom line is that the people of Haiti need our help. They don't care what the "best" plans are going forward. They desparately need our assistance ASAP.
