Help Haiti
by Jennifer on 01.14.2010
I'm dashing off this quick note to you to urge you to be what we Americans are known for--generous--not for me, but for Haiti.
According to UPI, the death toll from Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake Tuesday is at least 100,000 and could be several times that, according to Haitian officials in Port-au-Prince, a city of 2 million which is virtually flattened.
Haiti, part of an island and reachable only by plane or boat, is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. People are injured and thirsty with little available potable water. The quake's survivors are at great risk.
A good place to give is Doctors Without Borders. (DWB is on the ground in Haiti now.) You can also give to Oxfam America and The Jewish Federations of North America. Huffington Post has a broad list of other organizations as well.
Thanks for caring,
P.S. - Read more here.