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Wyclef Jean Talks Haiti Disaster ‘We Must Act Now’
Wyclef Jean is calling upon fans to donate money to help the battered island of Haiti, which was hit with the largest earthquake ever recorded Tuesday.
According to All Hip Hop, Jean is asking his 1,290,000 followers to donate $5 dollars
to his Yele Haiti non-
“Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake
unlike anything the country has ever experienced,” Wyclef told AllHipHop.com in a
statement. “The magnitude 7.0 earthquake – and several very strong aftershocks –
struck only 10 miles from Port-
To help…. text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to Yele Haiti, his non-
To make a donation or visit the relevant charity’s page,
click the image below or any of the icons on this page.
Haiti Earthquake Appeal
It is now believed 200,000 people have been killed and up to three million men, women and children affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck Haiti on Tuesday January 12. The situation in Port au Prince and the surrounding area is desperate, with mass casualties and devastation.
World Vision has been caring for injured survivors and we’ve delivered medical supplies
to 11 hospitals and health centres so far. We’re distributing planeloads of temporary
shelter, blankets, water containers, cooking and hygiene kits to thousands of people
in the lower Petionville and Canape Vert regions of eastern Port-
Your support is vital in helping us to assist people in Haiti: please donate now online by clicking the above image or calling 0800 088 088.
• £14 could provide meals for three families
• £25 could provide hygiene kits for four families
• £52 could provide a family with temporary shelter
• £80 could provide meals for 20 families
Thank you.
Celebrities Appeal for Haiti Relief in Televised Fundraising Concert
Celebrities lent their star power to help the people of Haiti in a telethon Friday that originated in Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti. The concert was broadcast in the United States and Canada, and seen by hundreds of millions of international viewers on cable and satellite channels, and the Internet.
Alicia Keys set the tone for the Hope for Haiti Now telethon. Against a backdrop of grim images of the January 12th earthquake, she made a musical call for help for the people of Haiti.
The fundraiser was organized by actor George Clooney, who spoke of the suffering caused by the devastating earthquake, which is thought to have killed about 200,000 people.
"This is an opportunity to help a neighbor in need, in desperate need, and to do it with swiftness, expertise, generosity, and love," he said.
Hollywood stars recited dramatic tales of survivors and rescue workers. Leonardo
DiCaprio told of a doctor from the medical charity Partners in Health, which is one
of the beneficiaries of the telethon. Like many relief workers in the disaster-
"They use a bottle of vodka to clean a wound, a headlamp instead of surgical lights, and a hacksaw instead of a scalpel to remove an injured leg," he said.
Many celebrities have made donations to the relief effort, including DiCaprio, who has given $1 million.
Celebrities were on hand to answer phones as viewers called to make smaller donations. The Hollywood volunteers included director Steven Spielberg, actor Mel Gibson, and actresses Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon.
CNN's Anderson Cooper provided live updates from Haiti, showing graphic video and interviewing survivors, including two children who had been pulled from the rubble.
Musical performers included Madonna, Jay-
Haitian-
Some of the funds raised in the telethon will go to Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. Other charities that will benefit from the drive are Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Program, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation, which was recently formed by the two former U.S. Presidents.
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Actors Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Drew Barrymore and Leonardo DiCaprio at the Hope For Haiti Now telethon in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Jeff Kravitz/MTV Hope for Haiti Now/Getty Images
UK public help 1.2 million people in Haiti
Monday 12 July 2010
Nearly six months after 12 January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti the Disasters Emergency Committee has announced that it has raised £101m and that this money has so far funded emergency assistance to 1.2m people.
DEC Member Agencies have played a major role in meeting the most urgent needs of survivors but helping provide jobs, decent places to live and better public services remains an enormous challenge.
Over £30m has been spent already with the largest share of the money paying for water and sanitation (28%), emergency shelter (22%), livelihoods support (16%) and household items including soap, mosquito nets and water containers (14%).
The earthquake was so devastating largely because it hit Haiti’s desperately poor
capital, Port-
DEC Chief Executive Brendan Gormley said:
“In 35 years of humanitarian work I have never seen such a challenge confronting survivors of a natural disaster and the DEC agencies which are trying to help them.
“Shockingly, our provision of emergency latrines and clean water means that many people now have better water and sanitation services than before the quake. One measure of our achievement is that there has been no major outbreak of potentially deadly diseases such measles, cholera or diarrhoea.
“Providing decent shelter in a city choked with millions of tons of rubble is proving enormously difficult. People will need jobs to pay rent on properties that have yet to be repaired or rebuilt, at sites that have yet to be cleared, where the ownership of every scrap of land is likely to be hotly disputed.
“It is clear that we are only at the beginning of what will be a long and painful journey but that I know DEC member agencies are committed to do whatever is necessary to support the people of Haiti.”
Aid already paid for with DEC funds includes:
clean drinking water for over 250,000 people
emergency shelter for over 100,000 people
the building 3,000 latrines
over 2,500 ‘cash for work’ public service projects
medical consultations for over 100,000 people
supplementary feeding for 1,890 malnourished children
DEC funds will be spent over three years in total, rather than the usual two, but many Member Agencies will stay on well beyond that period using funding from other sources.
The members of the DEC and other NGOs will play a significant role in rebuilding Haiti but leadership must come from the Haitian government. Much of most urgently needed money from international government’s should be provided through the $US1.5 billion UN Flash Appeal but this remains only 60.4% funded.
A series of short videos showing what our members have achieved and the challenge still facing them and the people of Haiti are being uploaded to our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DECcharity
To stay up to date with the emergency response in Haiti follow the DEC on twitter
at http://twitter.com/decappeal or become a fan of ‘Disasters-
The DEC Haiti Appeal will close at the end of July 2010 but donations can be made until then at www.dec.org.uk.
The DEC consists of: Action Aid, Age UK, British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision.
Telegraph campaign helps feed 15,000 Haitian children
More than 15,000 Haitian children, whose families are struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake and cholera outbreak, have been fed by a charity backed by Telegraph readers.
By Jon Swaine 5:19PM GMT 04 Feb 2011
Activists from Mary’s Meals, an Argyll-
The charity supplied medicine and water for victims of the earthquake in January last year, which killed more than 250,000 people and left a million displaced — many in “tent towns” around the capital.
It is now providing a meal every day for half a million poverty-
This week, Duncan Bannatyne, the entrepreneur and star of the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, was in Haiti working with Mary’s Meals staff. He has previously visited Romania and Malawi with the charity.
He told The Daily Telegraph that he had been “incredibly humbled” by the experience of assisting Haitians trying to rebuild their lives in the slums of Cite Soleil and Wharf Jeremie.
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“The people are beautiful at heart, fantastic people,” he said. “They want to achieve,
they’re working hard and they never complain. But they’re living in tents and they
want to get out of it.” Etienne, an eight-
“At school I get a hot meal like macaroni and herring every day,” she said.
“And it has helped me in my body and in my mind.” In Cite Soleil, workers from the charity have been rebuilding schools that were devastated in the earthquake, with the help of architects who have volunteered their time and expertise.
The reconstruction project also offered much-
The charity is also funding a mobile clinic in Cite Soleil, which treats local people for illnesses such as cholera, which spread through the country late last year. It is also giving schools backpacks full of educational materials.
Mary’s Meals was started in 2002 after Magnus MacFarlane-
Its focus was inspired by Edward, a 14-
The charity began providing a lunch of maize-
Since then it also helped feed children affected by civil wars in Liberia and Uganda, and homeless children in India, the Philippines and Ukraine.
Mr MacFarlane-
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Source: The Telegraph