Several Skoll social entrepreneurs have active programs in Haiti and may be facing urgent funding needs following yesterday’s earthquake. Partners in Health, water.org and Peace Dividend Trust work, respectively, on health care, water and sanitation, and peace and humanitarian programs. We encourage you to visit these organizations websites in the coming days as the extent of the damage becomes clear to see whether they are seeking emergency funding relief and contribute, if you can. Thanks.
ADDITION: Free The Children is another Skoll social entrepreneurial organzation working in Haiti. You can check out their relief efforts here.
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January 13th, 2010 - 12:24 pm
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January 13th, 2010 - 1:27 pm
Partners in Health - Earthquake Donations:
http://act.pih.org/page/m/27a1846a/4693f49f/6c46b09f/c8963b4/2187505974/VEsH/
A major earthquake centered just 10 miles from Port-au-Prince has devastated sections of the city and knocked out telephone communications throughout the country. Reached via email, Partners In Health staff at our facilities in the Central Plateau report that they experienced a strong shock but no major damage or injuries. We are still attempting to establish contact with other PIH facilities and to locate several staff members who were traveling in and around Port-au-Prince.
In an urgent email from Port-au-Prince, Louise Ivers, our clinical director in Haiti, appealed for assistance from her colleagues in the Central Plateau: “Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS… Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us.”
The earthquake has destroyed much of the already fragile and overburdened infrastructure in the most densely populated part of the country. A massive and immediate international response is needed to provide food, water, shelter, and medical supplies for tens of thousands of people.
With our hospitals and our highly trained medical staff in place in Haiti, Partners In Health is already mobilizing resources and preparing plans to bring medical assistance and supplies to areas that have been hardest hit.
Both our teams in Boston and Haiti are already mobilizing to deliver resources as quickly as possible to the places where they are needed most.
January 13th, 2010 - 2:42 pm
Water.org
http://water.org/2010/01/haiti-earthquake/
On 12 January, Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Water.org recently announced our commitment to bring safe water and sanitation to 50,000 Haitians over the coming 36 months. We are staging our response to this natural disaster.
Our most immediate concern is helping to restore the ability of our local NGO partner and potential partners to respond to the crisis by repairing and expanding water and sanitation facilities for people in need.
Water.org’s strength is long-term water and sanitation projects. Sustainable access to such basic necessities will be the area of greatest need as Haiti recovers from the earthquake.
If you would like to donate to immediate relief efforts in Haiti, you’ll find a list of potential organizations to support at: CNN Impact Site If you are interested in supporting Water.org’s efforts to restore and expand water and sanitation services in Haiti, we would gladly accept your donation: http://donate.water.org.
Our heart goes out to all of those affected by yesterday’s earthquake and we thank you for keeping the people of Haiti in your thoughts at this difficult time.
January 13th, 2010 - 3:06 pm
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January 14th, 2010 - 11:17 am
Another funding connection with Partners in Health. The band Arcard Fire weighs in to encourage its fans to support Partners in Health. http://pitchfork.com/news/37579-arcade-fire-ask-for-donations-for-haitian-earthquake-aid/
January 14th, 2010 - 7:53 pm
Partners in Health has launched a new site for Haiti relief. Visit it at http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti