What Can You Do Now?

On January 12, 2010, at 4:53pm local time, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, approximately 10 miles from Port-au-Prince. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people are feared dead, as the capital city has been devastated. You can help. Make a donation to one of these incredible and long-standing organizations in Haiti. They have distributed staff in country now, but most importantly, they are well positioned to aid in the long-term recovery effort.

Partners in Health: www.pih.org

Fonkoze: www.fonkoze.org

The Lambi Fund of Haiti: www.lambifund.org

Immediate Support: Established disaster recovery organizations and national governments have been mobilized. These organizations are also raising funds for relief efforts:

Oxfam: www.oxfam.org Click here to donate.

Doctors Without Borders: www.doctorswithoutborders.org Click here to donate.

Wyclef Jean’s Yele Foundation: www.yele.org Click here to donate. (This website it currently down due to overwhelmed servers at the time that we wrote this. We hope it will be back up soon.)

How Can You Help?

Immediate Support: Established disaster recovery organizations and national governments have been mobilized. These organizations are also raising funds for relief efforts:

Clothing Donations: http://www.hopehaitifoundation.org/

Donate Relief Goods: http://matadorchange.com/haiti-earthquake-update-donations-list//

Oxfam: www.oxfam.org Click here to donate.

Doctors Without Borders: www.doctorswithoutborders.org or toll-free at 1-888-392-0392 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week)

Wyclef Jean’s Yele Foundation: www.yele.org Click here to donate.

Food for the Poor: http://www.foodforthepoor.org/

World Vision: http://www.worldvision.org/

WHAT ACTIONS CAN I TAKE?

a) Contact your Congresspeople (to get your Senator & Representative's number to MAKE A QUICK CALL, visit http://www.contactingthecongress.org/) to support IMMEDIATE RESCUE EFFORTS to Haiti; and

b) To request TPS for Haitians, not just "halting deportations"

The Obama administration should grant Haitians Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is regularly granted to the people of other countries who've suffered much less disasters than Haiti; by DHS's own definition, even with the hurricanes preceding this earthquake, Haiti is overqualified.