Help the earthquake victims in Haiti

Our donation was sent a couple of days ago.

Corruption, sadly, occurs in EVERY organization, to one degree or another.....as long as MOST of what we sent is used for its intent, we'll feel satisfied.  We understand completely the doubtful nature many have of donations reaching their intended targets. 

Unlike Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh.....good gawd, what continues to be wrong with these unfeeling, inconsiderate, hateful, and outright hypocritical individuals?

Aid is being used to help.......people.........and religious people...........and, gosh, ..........American people of faith.  Even if they're agnostic, who gives a flying eff?  They are, you almighty and uncaring buffoons, people in need.

[QUOTE]MIAMI (AP) -- Retired NBA star[b] Alonzo Mourning[/b] [i]has[/i] flown to Haiti to assist relief workers in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince.  He is joining former Miami Heat teammate [b]Dwyane Wade[/b] and other pro athletes in an effort to raise funds for the recovery.
Mourning [i]arrived[/i] in the devastated capital Friday morning. In a statement first released to The Associated Press, Mourning says he is confident the athletes "can work together to make a difference."
The Heat also announced plans to send money and supplies, asking fans to give in exchange for ticket vouchers to games.
[b]The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's earthquake.

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This is what they need.  Direct involvement.  How come a former NBA player with a bad knee can get down there and start doing something, but everyone else is saying "the roads are blocked" (UPS)???   "The Port is destroyed" (US Army)

[QUOTE]Despite the strains on the US budget from the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, President Obama said Haiti would receive at least [b]$100 million[/b] from the administration. [/QUOTE]

I've been trying to find out what other countries are sending.  So far, we've got 2 million from the UK.  It's not a headline anymore on [url=http://www.germanynews.net]www.germanynews.net[/url] and not even mentioned on [url=http://www.france24.com]www.france24.com[/url]

Are any other countries doing anything to help?  I'd sure like to read about it. 

[QUOTE]AFP - Major US businesses have pooled at least [b]17 million [/b]dollars in cash an in-kind aid to help victims to Haiti's devastating earthquake, an association said Friday.
The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of large US companies, said aid pledges included one million dollars each from PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, which were offering bottled water and supplies in addition to cash. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] [b]Your Valentine wrote:

[/b] It's true that the late and insufficient response to the Katrina devastation was an embarrassment for the USA.[/QUOTE]

Quite.  But it was also an embarrassment for the rest of the world which just sat by and watched while pointing fingers at the Bush administration.  It's time for other nations to come to the aid of countries in despair, The United States is not the world's only firefighter.  Sack up, world!!!

I seem to recall Britain sent tinned food to New Orleans and the US refused to accept it, claiming something about mad cows. Having said that, I;ve been celebrating Uster's victory over Edinburgh in the rugby and I am quite drunk. Excelsior!

It's not, or should not be, a contest. It's about trying to give whatever help is within one's power to bring relief to the country.

Most countries, the U.S included, and most respected NGOs have been responding formidably.

The reaction has been very positive and generous all over, and that's kind of embracing.

Some time ago people would probably be celebrating.

Today the kinds of Pat are sick exceptions.

There has been a civilizational progress, as modest as it might seem sometimes.

It's not a contest, you're right.  But it's time the public was made aware of who is really helping out and who is just talking out of their Government asses.

What's left of the Haitiian government has JUST announced the death toll is closer to [b][i]140,000 people dead.

Most of the supplies are just sitting at the airport.  The Haitiian government has to choose the distribution points.  Then they have to inform the general public where that is.  Next, the UN has to provide the security to pass it out.  The Haitiian people are not being told this, they are simply starving to death and dying from their wounds right now.

Bottom line, there's too much help coming in for the authorities to handle!!!   [/i][/b]

Its a hopeless situation when so many people are in need of urgent help and co-ordinating aid cannot be an easy thing.

I was having  a conversation with a Russian colleague recently, and she said she doesn't know much about my country (India) other than that we are always being hit by some natural disaster or the other - flood, drought, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, exterme heat, extereme cold...you name it, we've been through it. And if that's not enough, terrorism and suicide bombing has been a contributing to a lot of deaths in the recent past as well.

Everytime there is a natural disaster, many organisations try to help out Like others have pointed out, not all of these are honest, the government agencies being the most corrupt. As much as possible my family donates clothes and non-perishable food itmes instead of money.

I must be living in a shell because I'm stunned by a report I just heard on the news...

You know how people are using social networks like facebook to post photos of loved ones missing in Haiti? Well, now they're saying that sexual predators are known to use the info they find there to prey on children misplaced by disasters like this. They said that even after Katrina and the Tsunami children were being kidnapped and trafficked as sex slaves and such, and that predators were finding information online and in local papers. Now that I hear it, I realize it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. The report sounded like an episode of Law and Order, SUV. It didn't sound real. I'll never understand the evil in some people.

just stick to the red cross,  they're legit

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[b]magicalfreddiemercury wrote: [/b]

I must be living in a shell because I'm stunned by a report I just heard on the news...

You know how people are using social networks like facebook to post photos of loved ones missing in Haiti? Well, now they're saying that sexual predators are known to use the info they find there to prey on children misplaced by disasters like this. They said that even after Katrina and the Tsunami children were being kidnapped and trafficked as sex slaves and such, and that predators were finding information online and in local papers. Now that I hear it, I realize it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. The report sounded like an episode of Law and Order, SUV. It didn't sound real. I'll never understand the evil in some people.

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Aye, I remember that being a big news item after the 2004 Tsunami.  Couldn't believe what I was hearing, to be honest.