robace252
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Well I just returned home from a day at the nearest Military Base where I and several friends spent all day putting together care packages and helping get responders off to help those affected in the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
As I volunteer often with the Red Cross, but I am unable to travel there as much as I want to due to my medical restrictions, I am doing what I can to help those that need so much in a time where they have lost everything. And this was not a small area. A city of 2 million, losses of 100,000 people or more. An area that was the poorest in the Western Hemisphere in the first place.
I left this morning at 4am and just now got back home. A lot of pain I am personally in but its nothing compared to what those in Haiti have to deal with. Its times like this that remind me no matter the pain or problems I have it pales in comparison with troubles in other places in the world. Right now in Haiti, in Port-au-Prince around a million or more people languish without basic necessities, medical care, and the things we all take for granted everyday. The children of course are suffering the worse, especially the youngest which don't understand what is going on but are dealing with the terror.
Dozens of aftershocks still have people sleeping in the streets, and in a country without building codes perhaps is safer than being indoors but still is a tragedy.
I hope anyone that reads this, that can.....give. Be it 1 dollar, 5 dollars or more, give. Myself I have canceled my upcoming Valentines Day cookout I do with military families and the toy give away for the children and have taken all the funds I would have used and donated it all to the American Red Cross to help in Haiti. I also called several of my donors and asked them not to contribute to my funds to just give.
There are a lot of great charities that you can give to:
http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.unicef.org/
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf
And there are ways to use you cell phone to text a donation:
Text--Haiti to 90999, this will give a $10 donation to the American Red Cross
Text--Yele to 501501, this will give a $5 donation to musician Wyclef Jean's Yele foundation.
Text--Haiti to 25383, this will give a $5 donation to the Internal Rescue Committee.
All these texts will appear for the amounts on your cell phone bill.
Lastly, I am surprised this is the first thread on the subject...and I hope it wont be the last.
Rob
As I volunteer often with the Red Cross, but I am unable to travel there as much as I want to due to my medical restrictions, I am doing what I can to help those that need so much in a time where they have lost everything. And this was not a small area. A city of 2 million, losses of 100,000 people or more. An area that was the poorest in the Western Hemisphere in the first place.
I left this morning at 4am and just now got back home. A lot of pain I am personally in but its nothing compared to what those in Haiti have to deal with. Its times like this that remind me no matter the pain or problems I have it pales in comparison with troubles in other places in the world. Right now in Haiti, in Port-au-Prince around a million or more people languish without basic necessities, medical care, and the things we all take for granted everyday. The children of course are suffering the worse, especially the youngest which don't understand what is going on but are dealing with the terror.
Dozens of aftershocks still have people sleeping in the streets, and in a country without building codes perhaps is safer than being indoors but still is a tragedy.
I hope anyone that reads this, that can.....give. Be it 1 dollar, 5 dollars or more, give. Myself I have canceled my upcoming Valentines Day cookout I do with military families and the toy give away for the children and have taken all the funds I would have used and donated it all to the American Red Cross to help in Haiti. I also called several of my donors and asked them not to contribute to my funds to just give.
There are a lot of great charities that you can give to:
http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.unicef.org/
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf
And there are ways to use you cell phone to text a donation:
Text--Haiti to 90999, this will give a $10 donation to the American Red Cross
Text--Yele to 501501, this will give a $5 donation to musician Wyclef Jean's Yele foundation.
Text--Haiti to 25383, this will give a $5 donation to the Internal Rescue Committee.
All these texts will appear for the amounts on your cell phone bill.
Lastly, I am surprised this is the first thread on the subject...and I hope it wont be the last.
Rob
