Wednesday January 13 2010 339 pm
The scene is apocalyptic. An entire capital city appears to have been flattened. Schools, hospitals, the federal parliament, the federal penitentiary and almost everything else have collapsed. The numbers of dead and wounded, to the extent they are known, are almost beyond comprehension.
You can find news about Tuesday’s 7.0 earthquake in Haiti just about anywhere. Below are links to some places you can go to help.
Please do what you can. Some relief organization’s facilities were completely destroyed and they need assistance even to re-establish their operations so that they can help the injured and homeless.
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- American Jewish World Service Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund
- American Red Cross International Response Fund
- Baptist Haiti Mission
- CARE
- Catholic Relief Services
- Direct Relief
- Doctors Without Borders
- International Medical Corps
- Mercy Corps
- Operation USA
- Oxfam America
- Partners in Health Haiti Earthquake Fund
- Save the Children
- Stillerstrong (Ben Stiller’s organization, temporarily diverting funds to Haitian earthquake relief)
- UNICEF Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund
- U.N. World Food Programme
- Yele Haiti (organization established by musician and Haiti native Wyclef Jean)
(Thanks to The Huffington Post for providing most of these links. Please note that Uncharted Parent is only providing links to these organizations and is not making any representations about them or the use of funds donated to them.)