IF YOU HAVE FAMILY IN HAITI

• International Committee Of The Red Cross Family Links
  For people seeking to restore contact with family members after the earthquake in Haiti.
  FamilyLinks.ICRC.org
  Click Here To Locate Your Relatives
• Contact the State Department at 888-407-4747
• Contact Senator LeMieux's office at 866-630-7106 or visit Lemieux.senate.gov for more information.

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OPERATION SLEEPING BAG



Make A Wish Veterans are accepting donations of new/unused sleeping bags to be sent to the people of Haiti. They have joined forces with Food For The Poor for distribution on the island nation of all donations.

MONEY! SLEEPING BAGS! CHECKS!

Click here for more information or CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE for the purchase of sleeping bags or call us at 786-472-1913.

Also you can drop off money/checks and/or new (un-used) sleeping bags at the Make A Wish Veterans HQ in Miami at 3257 NW.7th Avenue Cir, Miami, Florida 33127.

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DONATION INFORMATION


Food For The Poor Haiti Relief or call 1-800-487-1158

Wyclef Jean's Foundation - Yele.org

UNICEFUSA.org/haitiquake or call 1-800-4UNICEF

Mercy Corps Haiti Earthquake Fund
MercyCorps.org 1-888-256-1900

The Archdiocese of Miami
Catholic Charities
1505 NE 26th St. Wilton Manors, FL 33305
Attention: Earthquake Victims

The Pan American Development Foundation
PanAmericanRelief.org

The Red Cross is taking donations via text messages. Text the word HAITI to the number 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts. It'll show up on your phone bill. Or donate online HERE.

Catholic Relief Services
CRS.org

Doctors Without Borders
Donate with a debit or credit card HERE

Project Medishare, Miami
ProjectMediShare.org
Call 305-762-6448

Hope For Haiti, Naples, FL
HopeForHaiti.com
Call 239-434-7183

Agape Flights, Venice, FL
AgapeFlights.com
Call 941-584-8078

American Jewish World Service
AJWS.org
Or Call 212-792-2900

World Vision
WorldVision.org
Or call 866-280-6587

The Salvation Army
SalvationArmyUSA.org
Call 1-800-SAL-ARMY
Or send Checks to:
Salvation Army
61 NW 67 St., Miami, FL 33150

Operation Helping Hands
IWant2Help.org
Checks To:
Operation Helping Hands c/o United Way Of Miami-Dade
P.O. Box # 459007
Miami, FL 33245-9007
Or call 305-646-7129

CREOLE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Red Cross needs creole speaking volunteers for a 24 Hours phone bank. Call Mr. Wilfrid @ 305-776-6900.

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DONATE BY TEXT

• Donate $5 by texting the word "YELE" to 501501 for Wyclef Jean's Foundation
• Donate $10 by texting "HAITI" to 90999 for the American Red Cross

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GET UP-TO-DATE NEWS

The Palm Beach Post has reporter John Lantigua and photographer Lannis Waters in Haiti with up-to-the-minute coverage of the earthquake. Click here for updated information.


More Information Sources

• FoxNews.com
• CNN.com
• MiamiHerald.com
• Sun-Sentinel.com
• Reuters.com
• Associated Press

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from FOOD FOR THE POOR INC

COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Jan. 13, 2010) – An earthquake hit off the coast of Haiti, about 10 miles west from the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0.

Currently, Food For The Poor has a group of 12 college students, and two faculty advisors in Haiti on a mission trip. They attend Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Our President/CEO is in communications with Lynn’s President Dr. Kevin Ross, who is gathering information as it comes in from the students’ parents. Food For The Poor’s Mission Officer in Haiti said the students were dropped off at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince at 4 pm. We have learned there has been some damage to the hotel and are working to ascertain that the students, advisors and our staff are safe.

Food For The Poor accepting: canned meats, fish, condensed milk, evaporated and powder milk, and water.

Food For The Poor employees have reported the following accounts:

• A hospital has collapsed in Pétionville, a town in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince
• There appear to be more homes down than standing in several areas of Port-au-Prince
• Major number of homes down in the area of Delmas
• One staffer saw a five-story building collapse
• One employee saw a major bridge, the Croix de Mission, collapse right in front of her as she drove home. The bridge is a major artery to the North end of Haiti from Port-au-Prince.
• A portion of Food For The Poor’s main office in Port-au-Prince has collapsed. Our feeding center (Food For the Poor provides food for thousands of Haitians on a daily basis there) and the charity’s warehouse are there. We are still gathering information on the extent of the damage.
• Cell phone communication continues to be limited.
• Food For the Poor has 2 employees in Santo, Domingo where the shocks were strongly felt. The hotel they were at during the quake asked all guests to stay in the lobby until the shocks subsided.

Food For The Poor will do everything it can to reach out to the people of Haiti, and will keep updating our website as information comes in.

"Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti who are watching this disaster unfold around them. This country seems to take a beating far too often," said Robin Mahfood, President/CEO of Food For The Poor. "We have been monitoring the situation since it first happened, and we will take immediate steps to offer relief to those suffering from this earthquake."

Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information please visit, FoodForThePoor.org.