Friday, January 15, 2010
How to help Haiti
There are tons of companies rushing to the aid of Haiti after this devastating earthquake. Many people want to help out and donate, but they aren't sure which organization to donate to. I did a little research, and I came across some that I believe are great organizations for immediate, long-term, and infrastructure help. By infrastructure help, I mean that these are organizations that will help Haiti to rebuild itself from within by educating and helping the people to bring strength and hope to their own country from within. The current situation in Haiti was terrible before this natural disaster threw everything into complete chaos and horror. As one of the poorest countries in the world, Haiti's government is shaky at best, and the income of the country relied heavily on donations from stronger countries before the earthquake. With the help of these organizations and their effors in Haiti, maybe Haiti will be able to reach a point where it will be able to have better hospitals, schools, emergency response, economic health, and especially at the very least be able to clothe and feed it's people better on it's own. These are companies that are well organized and established and will be able to use the donations to best benefit the people of Haiti as well. The best organizations I found to accomplish all of this are Red Cross, www.redcross.org, ADRA, www.adra.org, UNICEF, www.unicef.org, Yele Haiti, www.yele.org, Oxfam, www.oxfam.org, and The American Jewish World Service, http://secure.ajws.org. Its understandable that many want to help, but make sure that you are helping the right way, and that your money is going where it needs to go, instead of into the hands of the corrupt politicians and faulty systems currently in affect in Haiti at the moment.
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