Three Thing You Can Do To Really Help Haiti

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. Donate to Doctors without Borders

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1&source=ADR1001E1D01

2. Call your respresentatives and ask them to sign the Jubilee Act which cancels a large portion of Haiti's Debt

http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee-act.html

3. Urge your respresentative to support Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants to the United States

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/haiti/?r=5173&id=7343-2392191-R3rA1ix


If you need information as to why debt cancelling is ethical for Haiti, please read this article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6281614.ece

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. i hope those who can, will donate

and those who cant donate will call their reps

and most of you will do both

[blondeatlast]

2. I've done #3 already (like Shadegg's gonna help, but I tried), tomorrow (payday)

I'll do #1, and will look into #2; sounds like a GREAT idea for rebuilding their country stronger.

k/r

[mopinko]

3. i believe #3 has already been done.

friend tells me napolitano was on the teevee saying this was being done.

[mrbarber]

4. Just donated 10 dollars to The Red Cross diaster relief fund.

They let you make donations through your preexisting Amazon account, which is really nice.

[Zomby Woof]

5. Doctors Without Borders

One of the best doctors I ever had is a member of this great organization. Will be happy to help, and spread the word.

Thanks for the other receommendations as well!

:hug: Pri!

[Blue_Tires]

6. thanks, Pri!

[blondeatlast]

7. Kick. nt

[lostnfound]

8. Partners In Health -- It's Haitian-born, still effective, and low overhead

http://www.pih.org/inforesources/news/Haiti_Earthquake.html

From Tracy Kidder, who wrote the biography of Partner In Health's founder Dr. Paul Farmer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14kidder.html

"This week, the list of things that Haiti needs, things like jobs and food and reforestation, has suddenly grown a great deal longer. The earthquake struck mainly the capital and its environs, the most densely populated part of the country, where organizations like the Red Cross and the United Nations have their headquarters. A lot of the places that could have been used for disaster relief — including the central hospital, such as it was — are now themselves disaster areas.

But there are effective aid organizations working in Haiti. At least one has not been crippled by the earthquake. Partners in Health, or in Haitian Creole Zanmi Lasante, has been the largest health care provider in rural Haiti. (I serve on this organization’s development committee.) It operates, in partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Health, some 10 hospitals and clinics, all far from the capital and all still intact. As a result of this calamity, Partners in Health probably just became the largest health care provider still standing in all Haiti.

Fortunately, it also offers a solid model for independence — a model where only a handful of Americans are involved in day-to-day operations, and Haitians run the show. Efforts like this could provide one way for Haiti, as it rebuilds, to renew the promise of its revolution."

[Lochloosa]

9. #1 Done!

Thanks Lioness

[tekisui]

10. KNR!~

[Octafish]

11. K&R

Thank you, Lioness Priyanka. Exactly.

[slipslidingaway]

12. knr - done, done, done - govtrack link to bill ...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4405

Also ...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4405&tab=related

"Other Legislation with the Same Title
The list below shows legislation in this and previous sessions of Congress that had the same title as this bill. Often bills are incorporated into other omnibus bills, and you may be able to track the status of provisions of this bill by looking for an omnibus bill below. Note that bills may have multiple titles.

110th Congress: S. 2166 Dead
110th Congress: H.R. 2634 Passed House (97% of Democrats supporting, 65% of Republicans opposing.)"

[enigmatic]

13. K&R

Thanks for this!

[Solly Mack]

14. K&R

[EFerrari]

15. Three excellent suggestions. K&R

[Zomby Woof]

16. ZombyKick

[AuntPatsy]

17. These threads and those explaining how to donate cannot be kicked enough

[fishwax]

18. k/r

:kick:

[BurtWorm]

19. I have done and will do more.

:patriot:

[pitohui]

20. k & r EOM

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[JohnnyLib2]

21. Thanks. Rec.

[lightningandsnow]

22. Thank you so much for posting this.

Kicked and rec'd.

[cali]

23. Excellent suggestions. I'd only add that doctors without borders

is only one of many worthy organizations doing vital work in Haiti.

[Ignis]

24. Thanks for mentioning the Jubilee Act!

:yourock:

[Tindalos]

25. K&r

[Wilms]

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[La Lioness Priyanka]

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[CBR]

28. Kick. nt

[Kitty Herder]

29. kick