Haiti - Damage on par with the 2004 Asian tsunami - how to help

[MmeLindt]

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, life there was already harsh.

Now with one in three Haitians affected by the earthquake, the prospect of improvement just got much worse.

The harrowing pictures on TV cause distress, it is easy to turn off, to turn away.

We should not.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is already taking donations through a special phone line, 0370 60 60 900, and through its website www.dec.org.uk, and tomorrow it expects to launch a television appeal
Please donate what you can, either to the DEC or to other aid relief agencies.

Oxfam

Unicef

Save The Children

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Stewiegriffrinsmum - good idea, I will do the same when I get a chance (just been to pick up the dd's so chaos now for a while!).

One of my friends is in DR and used to work for Oxfam, I think she has done some work in Haiti. She had a link on her FB site where people could donate foodstuff etc which I guess will be taken over the border. In a way it must be nice to be able to do something more tangible than just donate money.

Still I guess the aid agencies know what they are doing and what they really need is money.

A final bump before I go out again.

SG I apologise atrandom for my typing anyway, it just pops out my ifngers now

wasn'tme with the paypal link but that was good

Just made a donation. Thanks for posting this thread as I was trying to remember the name of DEC and could not (have donated through them before)

Yes, the DEC site is user friendly.

Just donated. I was wondering if there was anything like this set up so thank you.

Donated and bumping...

Thanks for the link MmeLindt.

Octo- As long as you put your dh's name as the donor. You shld be O.k. Not that I'm a tax expert.

Just donated.

Donated through DEC and it took about 1.5 minutes.
Please keep the momentum going. Although times are hard, I think that if I can still manage eating out occasionally or the odd bit of retail therapy then I can make a donation.

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No reply to my request for this thread to be a sticky or for a link to be added to the site so I will just do what I can to keep bumping.

Estimates of dead now 45 - 50,000

Does anyone know if there are any collection points for clothes or blankets? I have recently had a big clear-out of children's stuff and would be delighted to donate it. The hospital situation looks just grim - no medecine, nothing. Those poor people.

American Express, MasterCard and Visa say they will waive transaction fees when people use credit cards to donate to charities helping in Haiti, according to CNN's Jessica Yellin. Any transaction fees already collected in those transactions will be given to the charities, the credit card companies say.

Just donated -- thanks for the links MmeLindt and all!

(used paypal to donate to UNICEF)

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Shelterbox is a good charity to donate to as well and are currently working in Haiti.

ShelterBox

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Medecins sans frontieres msf is already on site prividing medical assistance.
We have already donated through Oxfam because their is no clear appeal on msf website but please watch their space, they are terribly efficient.

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