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 Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:49 pm
The radio just announced that the
Red Cross has run out of supplies like food and water for the people of Haiti.
Please, if you haven't given already do so
soon. Those people are in desperate need of help. Their country is in near
ruin and the government can't do much since it wasn't stable in the
beginning. Here are some links to places you can donate:
http://www.unicef.org/index.php
http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf
If anyone has other links to helping out,
please post them. Or you can just talk about the subject.
edit: Thanks for your replies guys. And incase no one has heard this
morning another powerful quake shook Haiti again. 6.1 this time.
Just a week later and still aftershocks...
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:58 pm
Seems like even Gaia is helping out too. I'm sure you all saw the announcement, but I'll post it here anyways.
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/haiti-quake/haiti-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help/t.57875123/
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:49 pm
My school and community's doing a bunch of fundraising as well. It's really nice to see people banding together like this to help those in need, even if it took an earthquake to do it.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:26 pm
I agree Sang.
My friend and I discussed making a box to ship
of clothes our daughters don't fit into anymore.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:32 pm
my mom's Rotary Club was discussing what they were going to do to possibly help a couple days ago, and i think i'll try to pitch in using that, or something else local since i don't have the means to donate online or anything.
yeah, it seems the only time the world really unites is when there's been a huge disaster, but it's something, and it does some good.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:54 pm
Was visiting family members in San Juan and felt the tremors from there. Dad bugged out and cut the trip short, so we came back home early.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:29 pm
Skull Panda Was visiting family members in San Juan and felt the tremors from there. Dad bugged out and cut the trip short, so we came back home early.
Yeah, I was actually wondering how the Dominican Republic was handling
everything since they're right next door. But from what I found out things
over there are fine and the DR government even tried reaching out to the
Haitian government after the initial shock but couldn't because of power failure.
I'm also worried about the rebel forces in Haiti and how they're
going to try milking this disaster for all it's worth. It's sick and sad!
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:26 am
Kira Kira~sama Skull Panda Was visiting family members in San Juan and felt the tremors from there. Dad bugged out and cut the trip short, so we came back home early.
Yeah, I was actually wondering how the Dominican Republic was handling
everything since they're right next door. But from what I found out things
over there are fine and the DR government even tried reaching out to the
Haitian government after the initial shock but couldn't because of power failure.
I'm also worried about the rebel forces in Haiti and how they're
going to try milking this disaster for all it's worth. It's sick and sad! If I could compare it to something, the Haitians are to us like the Mexicans are to Americans. They always immigrate illegally, but it was never a big issue. News last night said they were swarming here now.
And the DR is helping them a lot. But from what I saw, not enough supplies can get there, little space to land helicopters, and not enough doctors to help the injured. They're treating them outside, for fear that another quake might hit while they're indoors.
Theres still some sick Trujillists around that think that Haitians deserved it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:40 pm
Skull Panda Kira Kira~sama Skull Panda Was visiting family members in San Juan and felt the tremors from there. Dad bugged out and cut the trip short, so we came back home early.
Yeah, I was actually wondering how the Dominican Republic was handling
everything since they're right next door. But from what I found out things
over there are fine and the DR government even tried reaching out to the
Haitian government after the initial shock but couldn't because of power failure.
I'm also worried about the rebel forces in Haiti and how they're
going to try milking this disaster for all it's worth. It's sick and sad! If I could compare it to something, the Haitians are to us like the Mexicans are to Americans. They always immigrate illegally, but it was never a big issue. News last night said they were swarming here now.
And the DR is helping them a lot. But from what I saw, not enough supplies can get there, little space to land helicopters, and not enough doctors to help the injured. They're treating them outside, for fear that another quake might hit while they're indoors.
Theres still some sick Trujillists around that think that Haitians deserved it. 
To say any nation deserves anything even close to what the Haitians
are going through needs to be shot! That's so incredibly ignorant and stupid!
And yeah, I've heard about the difficulty they're having.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:58 pm
yeah i'm giving clothes to the red cross and etc,
and texting to donate money from my cellphone.
*Make a $10 donation to the Red Cross to support the efforts in Haiti by texting "Haiti" to 90999.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:49 am
Jena's school has classes donating coins to UNICEF.
She brought home a paper and was curious to what was
going on so I showed her a video on national geographic's
site about earthquakes and tsunamis.
Also, my first post has been updated.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:58 pm
Those poor people. It's all I could think about letely, and I hope that things start getting better soon for them.
Did anybody see the speech Obama made the day after the 7.0 quake happened? He said that the country plans on doing everything in it's power to help where it can, and that they'll be sending as many as the country can spare to help treat the injured. A couple of days after the first quake a family went live on NBC and pleaded with Obama to get to the hotel as fast as possible where their daughter was staying. The daughter went to a Florida University, where she and a bunch of classmates and 2 professors decided to go to Haiti to help the poor there. They had arrived 2 days before the quake and got caught in it. 4 out of 6 students made it out safe, but the daughter has yet to be found along with the 2 teachers and another student. It's so sad to see all those people crying and hurting.
Whoever says a nation or people deserve something this horrible like what happened to Haiti are sick, wrong, and deserve to go thru a grinder!
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:08 pm
It makes me so sad, seeing all those people in pain. I wish I could do something. I wish I had money to donate. If I had a job I would be donating as much as I could! I brought up donating to my grams and aunt... but they're so narrow minded it just makes me sick even to talk to them. Yes, that country may not be as civilized as we are, and they may be corrupt like mexico is (mercenaries and all that), but heck, America isn't all that better off. I personally wouldn't mind, if I could, going down there and feeding those poor people, and helping them in any way I could. I wish I could adopt one of those poor kids, or at least make sure they have a warm bed to sleep in and food to eat.
My aunt was all: They need to be put into camps and taken off the streets.
I was all: They need HELP.
She was all: Why are so many news people walking around over there?
I was all: Because its a DISASTER and they need HELP over there.
FFS. *facepalm* Bless those people, because I know lot of racist families won't pay them 2 seconds of attention because of the color of their skin, and it makes me sick. Physically sick. I'm tired of racism, and I'm tired of people ignoring others who are in pain. D:<
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:42 pm
I didn't get to see the speech because I have no cable.
But I go to my fav reporters page and he had a video from his show
in the afternoon which had a report from one of the other guys. I've seen
this guy, I think his name is Steve, report on disasters and this was the
first time I saw him so tore up about one. Mostly it was because he had met
a woman who lost all her 5 kids. 4 during the quake and her youngest
at the hospital after. She went insane with grief and began lashing out,
her husband and sister the only one who could help her. And all they
have now is a mattress to sleep one because help is still hard to come by.
What made him cry was when he talked about how alone those people are.
If anything, ask your family Hisa, how they would feel being alone?
How they would feel loosing those close to them? Sleeping on a mattress
for God knows how long, waiting for the littlest bit of hope to arise? Even
if it's not money, spare clothes or bottles of water, or like I said in the poll
hopes and prayers for better days to come is better than nothing.
So don't think you can't do something Hisa, because you can! *hugs*
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:22 am
I'll get some clothes together and find out where I can donate it! biggrin (Like the s**t they bought me that I friggen hate wearing hahaha~!)
; _____ ; *sends more prayers that way*
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