January 13, 2010 - Some resources re: Haiti earthquake 

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has caused extensive damage since the infrastructure was so weak and/or non-existent. International relief organizations and governments are scrambling to get essential recovery and relief experts and supplies in.

A message from the U.S. State Department says … State, local, and tribal governments with goods and services to offer to the relief effort in Haiti should direct their offers to helphaiti@state.gov. Responders are reminded to please not attempt self-dispatch to Haiti; USAID and the State Department are coordinating the deployment of resources to Haiti and responders should deploy only if tasked to do so.

Some links to help and stay current on things include…

American Red Cross Text "HAITI" to 90999 or visit http://www.redcross.org

Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) http://www.cidi.org

CIDI has a link to list of 80+ InterAction member agencies accepting cash donations in response to Haitian emergency http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti

Disaster News Network http://www.disasternews.net

ReliefWeb http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet http://www.alertnet.org

US State Dept’s Haiti page http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/ha/earthquake/index.htm

White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake  


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