HAITI...who on the AH has contributed?

[Edward Teach]

Times are hard, but I managed to send a few dollars.

Text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief Fund. The Text is free and the money will be added to your cell bill. This was set up by the U.S. State Dept. and is not a scam.


Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean Foundation's Haiti Relief Fund.

Have you contributed yet?

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, to UMCOR, which has the highest dollar-to-relief rating of any relief agency (100%--salaries and maintenance are paid from elsewhere) and already had significant aid on the ground before the earthquake--as could no better be demonstrated than that UMCOR's chief executive was killed in the quake.

 

[Carnevil9]

You might not like to hear this, but Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation has sent more than 57 million dollars in relief to Haiti. Sorry about that......Carney

 

[Edward Teach]

Yep, to UMCOR, which has the highest dollar-to-relief rating of any relief agency (100%--salaries and maintenance are paid from elsewhere) and already had significant aid on the ground before the earthquake--as could no better be demonstrated than that UMCOR's chief executive was killed in the quake.

What is UMCOR's address, sr?

 

[sr71plt]

UMCOR
PO Box 9068,
New York, NY 10087

You can find it on line at umcor.org.

 

[LaRocha]

My mom's International Red Cross, so I give to that monthly, but Haiti specific I've invested recently in notes through Microplace, a subsidiary of Ebay. There are loans offices, in Haiti it's Fonkoze, they lend individuals and small business $20-1000+ dollars at 1 to 2% interest. It's not charity, you'll likely receive your original investment and the interest back after a few years. But this is direct lending to the poorest of Haitians, and small business is the only thing that will re-build a non-existent economy.

https://www.microplace.com/investments/details/Sevis+Finansye+Fonkoze+via+Oikocredit+GC+Note

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Fools and their money.

The US gives Haiti, on average, 200 MILLION every year.

How's that been working out?

 

[LaRocha]

Fools and their money.

The US gives Haiti, on average, 200 MILLION every year.

How's that been working out?

The bureaucracy of these massive institutions dilutes the power and usefulness of the aid. But you already knew that. That's why the most effective way to rebuild Haiti is by getting money into the hands of people you know will do something with it beyond survival. Not that survival isn't important, but there are numerous financing institutions in Haiti that cater to the poorest of small business people. Bill Gates knows it, UN and USA doesn't quite get it yet. There are some charitable finance institutions too, so if you don't want your money back you can just give them the money to invest in their business. But there are plenty of tricksters out there right now, trying to soak up that aid money for their own gain.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The bureaucracy of these massive institutions dilutes the power and usefulness of the aid. But you already knew that. That's why the most effective way to rebuild Haiti is by getting money into the hands of people you know will do something with it beyond survival. Not that survival isn't important, but there are numerous financing institutions in Haiti that cater to the poorest of small business people. Bill Gates knows it, UN and USA doesn't quite get it yet.

I say annex Haiti and make it a Federal Protectorate...naval station, national park.

Haiti is run by thugs and corrupt bureaucrats, the average wage is about $1 per day, the country is deforested, filled with orphaned kids, and toast (for all intents and purposes). Our choice is: Let it become another Somalia and haven for Caribbean pirates or rebuild it right like we did in Europe after World War 2. Its a wonderful opportunity to fix a stinking shithouse.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

I don't know why, but this thread seems like a weird little competition to me. Whatever. Carry on.

 

[LaRocha]

I say annex Haiti and make it a Federal Protectorate...naval station, national park.

Haiti is run by thugs and corrupt bureaucrats, the average wage is about $1 per day, the country is deforested, filled with orphaned kids, and toast (for all intents and purposes). Our choice is: Let it become another Somalia and haven for Caribbean pirates or rebuild it right like we did in Europe after World War 2. Its a wonderful opportunity to fix a stinking shithouse.

That's pretty much what we did with the other half of the island. Haiti didn't have the natural resources to make it worth our while. We've had plenty of chances, have had control of the country enough, there's no real incentive for us to do so.

 

[LaRocha]

I don't know why, but this thread seems like a weird little competition to me. Whatever. Carry on.

Even if it is a competition, how would it hurt bringing new eyes to different organizations? Imagine some typical dumdum from the AH wanders in, checks out one of these sites and actually puts money to work for Haiti. Oh, if only every charitable action was perfectly altruistic! It would just make the aid so much grander.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Even if it is a competition, how would it hurt bringing new eyes to different organizations? Imagine some typical dumdum from the AH wanders in, checks out one of these sites and actually puts money to work for Haiti. Oh, if only every charitable action was perfectly altruistic! It would just make the aid so much grander.

That's fine and dandy, but there's no need for a tally thread to count up who has donated and who, by process of elimination, hasn't. A more altruistic thread would have been: "For anyone who's interested, here are a few different ways to donate to Haiti."

It's best left at that. Period.

 

[LaRocha]

That's fine and dandy, but there's no need for a tally thread to count up who has donated and who, by process of elimination, hasn't. A more altruistic thread would have been: "For anyone who's interested, here are a few different ways to donate to Haiti."

It's best left at that. Period.

The point is, altruism is irrelevant. Whether someone gives because they want to claim it on their taxes or because they actually want to help someone doesn't matter to the one receiving the aid. I thought this thread was a "for anyone who's interested, here are a few different ways to donate to Haiti." And now you're two or three posts in and haven't recommended any ways of helping Haiti.

 

[oggbashan]

In the UK, the major relief charities get together for disasters under one overall organisation Disasters Emergency Committee. It includes Christian and Islamic charities as well as secular ones.

Donations can be made on-line, by phone, by post, or by walking into any bank branch in the UK.

eBay UK provides a tick box for anyone buying, who uses PayPal, to donate with each purchase. eBay is paying its own, PayPal's and the charity's administration costs so that the effort on Haiti gets the full donation.

Og

 

[driphoney]

UMCOR
PO Box 9068,
New York, NY 10087

You can find it on line at umcor.org.

To make it easier. Here

I agree, TF, the thread header could maybe be a little better. "How the AH can give", that sort of thing ... JMO

 

[Liar]

You might not like to hear this, but Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation has sent more than 57 million dollars in relief to Haiti. Sorry about that......Carney

Aaaand this has what to do with the thread?

 

[Trinique_Fire]

To make it easier. Here

I agree, TF, the thread header could maybe be a little better. "How the AH can give", that sort of thing ... JMO

Thanks Drip.

For the record.....

http://www.redcross.org/
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
http://www.worldvision.org/worldvis...ief?Open&campaign=113655125&cmp=KNC-113655125
http://usa.humanityfirst.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143
https://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3580&3580.donation=form1
http://www.americares.org/

 

[Liar]

Our local diner close to work have a cool thing going, the Double Lunch option.

You pay twice the price for your meal, and the extra money goes to charity, most often to SOS Children's Villages International, but sometimes to local things.

Right now, it goes to the SOS effort to build orphanages in Haiti, re-build those damaged, and emegency aid to locate and take care of children who lost their families.It's one of those organisations that are hands-on on site with targeted operations, instead of just directing funds. Which means the money will go to work.

Let's just say they've had a lot of well tipping customers this week.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In the paper today is an article about a local social worker who stole 10 gift cards donated to children in fostercare at Christmas (she's a Democrat). Caught on camera she said she confused the cards with the cards her mom gave her. Most charitable organizations have the same problem.

 

[Edward Teach]

I don't know why, but this thread seems like a weird little competition to me. Whatever. Carry on.

If the thread title makes you uncomfortabe, Trini, maybe that's what it was trying to do.

That and show how mean and narcissistic some of us are.

 

[sr71plt]

One Haiti fund that doesn't turn me on is the new Clinton-Bush one. What we don't need is more relief agencies, each with its own overhead expenses. What we need is to channel the help where the highest percentage of funds go directly to timely and appropriate need. I think Clinton and Bush should have done what Michele Obama is in plugging the Red Cross--pick one with the greatest bang and relief for the buck and plug for that one.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I don't know why, but this thread seems like a weird little competition to me. Whatever. Carry on.

You're not alone. I've always been of the "don't let your left hand know what your right is doing" school.

 

[Boota]

There was some debate about whether I was going to be sent there. I work for the Salvation Army in one of my day jobs and that means I'm on call for disaster relief. I just found out Monday that I wouldn't be going. We may have some people from the local corps going, but it won't be me.

Hope the Red Cross isn't charging people for their help like they did in NOLA after Katrina.

 

[CharleyH]

Times are hard, but I managed to send a few dollars.

Text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief Fund. The Text is free and the money will be added to your cell bill. This was set up by the U.S. State Dept. and is not a scam.


Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to the Wyclef Jean Foundation's Haiti Relief Fund.

Have you contributed yet?

I do admire (not your financial contribution to Haiti) but your emotional and physical readiness to get there and do something hands-on when called as a medical worker, Edward. Barring that, there is nothing to do but send money. Sigh.

Have I sent money? No. My reasons are my own.