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Help victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Here's a list
of organizations accepting donations:
- InterAction, a coalition of U.S.-based international
non-governmental organizations, has a list of agencies responding
and how to donate to them. Find it here:
http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti
- To donate $5 to Wyclef Jean's Haitian Yele charity, text
501501. The money will be added to your next phone bill.
- To find out how to help the International Rescue Committee,
visit www.theIRC.org or call toll free, 1-877-REFUGEE.
Secretary of State Clinton has set up an aid line that people can use
to send money to support Haiti relief similar to what was set up to
support refugees in Pakistan earlier this year. Cell phone users can text "haiti" to 90999 and $10 will go to relief efforts in Haiti. The $10 will show up on your phone bill.
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The State Department has set up a toll-free number to call for information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747.
www.state.gov
YELE HAITI EARTHQUAKE FUND
www.yele.org
Text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 via your cell phone
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Text "HAITI" to "90999" to make a $10 donation. The amount
will be added to your next phone bill. The organization is also
accepting donations through its International Response
Fund.
2025 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(800) REDCROSS (800-257-7575)
www.redcross.org
AMERICARES
88 Hamilton Avenue
Stamford, Conn. 06902
(800) 486-4357
www.americares.org
MERCY CORPS
Dept. W
P.O. Box 2669
Portland, Ore., 97208-2669
(888) 256-1900
donate.mercycorps.org
OXFAM AMERICA
226 Causeway St., 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02114-2206
(800) 77-OXFAM (776-9326)
THE SALVATION ARMY
615 Slaters Lane
P.O. Box 269
Alexandria, VA 22313
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Haiti Earthquake Children in Emergency Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, Conn. 06880
(800) 728-3843
WORLD VISION
Haiti Earthquake Relief
P.O. Box 9716
Federal Way, Wash. 98063-9716
(888) 511-6548
CARE
151 Ellis Street
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
(800) 521-CARE (521-2273)
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA/MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF)
333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001-5004
(888) 392-0392
INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES
P.O. Box 630225
Baltimore, Md. 21263-0225
(877) 803-4622
U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF
125 Maiden Lane
New York, N.Y. 10038
(800) FOR-KIDS (367-5437)
FOOD FOR THE POOR
www.foodforthepoor.org
CONCERN
Donation Phone #: 800 59-CONCERN
Donation Address:
104 East 40th Street, Room 903
New York, NY, 10016
www.concern-worldwide.org
Concern Worlwide US calls on the public for urgent support to
allow the agency to provide food, water, shelter and medicine as the
immediate priority for those that have survived the catastrophe.
Catholic Medical Mission Board
Monetary contributions can be made by sending checks, payable to
CMMB-Haiti, to CMMB, 10 West 17th Street, New York City, New York
10011, or by calling 1 800 678 5659. Pledges can also be made via the
CMMB website, where an ad appears, cmmb.org, or by a direct web link: http://support.cmmb.org/Haiti.
Donated medicines and medical supplies are also being accepted by CMMB.
To make these donations, please contact Kathy Tebbett, at 1 212 242
7757.
NEW JERSEY FOR HAITI
For information on how to support or donate to the relief effort, please visit www.nj4haiti.org
or call Jefferson Park Ministries at 908-629-0041. Jefferson Park
Ministries will also be holding grief counseling every night starting
Thursday, January 14 from 6-10 p.m. at Madison Avenue in Elizabeth, New
Jersey.
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