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Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
USS Higgins Arrives Home From Haiti
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins, the first U.S. Navy ship to reach earthquake-ravaged Haiti, returned to San Diego today after a six-month deployment.
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Haiti relief auction set for Saturday
SENATOBIA – Simply Southern Auctions will hold an auction for victims of the Haiti earthquake from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Dr. Al home from Haiti
FOX 11 medical expert Dr. Alan Cherkasky spent several days in Haiti. Click on the headline for Robert Hornacek’s report.
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WILDOMAR: Girls sell art for Haiti
After seeing the devastation that occurred in Haiti followingthe 7.0-magnitude earthquake last month, sisters Marley and PresleyMagana wanted to help.
Read more on North County Times
Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in wake of the recent earthquake.
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Lutheran Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Haiti work changes lives of South Jerseyans
Not long after an earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, Karen Slutsky got a call at 7:30 p.m. in her Cherry Hill home: She was needed as a member of New Jersey’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team.
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Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in wake of the recent earthquake.
Read more on Suburban Journals
Could Haiti happen here?
It’s a natural question to ask after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Jan. 12: Could that same kind of devastation happen in Seattle?
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Press Releases: USAID Administrator Raj Shah and State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills On the Way Forward in Haiti
USAID Administrator Raj Shah and State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills On the Way Forward in Haiti Cheryl Mills Counselor Washington, DC February 2, 2010 MR. CROWLEY: Good afternoon and welcome to the Department of State. It’s been a couple of weeks since two of our most senior officials working on Haiti policy have visited with you, so we thought we’d start up with kind of a Haiti update …
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Lutheran Foundation offers challenge grant to help Haiti
Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis has created a matching challenge grant to help raise funds for the relief effort in Haiti in the wake of the recent earthquake.
Read more on Suburban Journals
Haiti Foundation Against Poverty Launches New Fundraising Drive to Help Victims of Earthquake
Quake sounded like a ‘freight train’ says Grimsby man
A Grimsby man is safe and on his way home, after surviving a major earthquake that tore through Port Au Prince, Haiti Tuesday. John Kottelenberg was able to contact his family around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, mere hours after a 7.0 magnitude earth quake rocked the Caribbean country.
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Yankees Donate $500,000 for Relief in Earthquake-Stricken Haiti
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — The New York Yankees donated $500,000 to relief efforts in Haiti, where an earthquake may have killed more than 100,000 people.
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Dickinson Professor hopes for big rebuild in Haiti
A Dickinson College professor hopes the recent tragedy in Haiti will unify the world beyond earthquake relief toward helping the island nation rebuild and restructure its struggling economy.
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No room in the cemetery for Haiti dead
Haiti . The Grand Cimetière, the last home of the country’s most famous families, has in five days turned from a place of respect and mourning into an installation of horror.It begins just a few feet…
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Haiti Foundation Against Poverty Launches New Fundraising Drive to Help Victims of Earthquake
Haiti Foundation Against Poverty launches online initiative to raise money to help victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday.
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An Urgent Appeal for the People of Haiti from The Mr. Rogers Windows Foundation
Our world is witnessing a major humanitarian disaster of unprecedented proportions. The Red Cross federation has estimated that 45,000 to 50,000 people have died as a result of the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. However, it is also believed that over 3 million more have been injured or left homeless without the essentials to sustain life— water and food. Medical care is almost non-existent.
The survivors of the quake are now living in devastation and desperation on the streets. Yet even now on CNN we see them, marching and singing on the streets of Port-au-Prince. We are in awe at their resilience and their dignity in the face of such tragedy.
As we approach the critical 72-hour mark after the quake, our brothers and sisters in Haiti are in desperate need of help. As God’s children and citizens of this planet, we are all being called upon during these critical hours to act quickly and with compassion in order to save as many lives as possible and relieve the suffering. Before it is too late. Already too many have been killed or have succumbed to their injuries without proper medical attention.
Every single one of our actions, no matter how small or insignificant they may seem, at this moment in time must in some way contribute and make a difference to the people of Haiti. Their need is urgent: food, water, shelter, medicine, antibiotics, medical supplies and equipment, search and rescue teams, medical workers, fuel, even equipment and manpower to clear roads of rubble so that aid can reach the people.
Countless organizations around the world are working tirelessly now to get aid to Haiti as quickly as possible. But it cannot be done without financial resources. And in the coming difficult days and weeks facing the Haitian people, the need for ongoing financial support will become greater, to prevent disease, improve living conditions, build shelter for the homeless, and stabilize their communities.
Donating cash is one way each and every one of us can help, regardless of where we live.
Mr. Rogers Windows is donating $10 directly to the relief effort for every window we sell over the course of the next 3 months, and we will make this donation to the International Red Cross and World Vision, and designate it specifically for the relief effort in Haiti. Both organizations had relief efforts on the streets in Haiti within hours of the quake.
We are a generous nation, and thousands of people have responded in an overwhelming show of support for the victims of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. Let us continue to open our wallets and our hearts for them. We must also help them to keep the faith. We must let them know that we are all praying for them and with them. The people of Haiti need to know that the entire world is behind them, supporting them and looking out for them in these hours of immediate and critical need.
All of us at Mr. Rogers Windows and the Mr. Rogers Windows Foundation are praying for the people of Haiti. We send you our love, our support and we are in awe of your courage, your strength and your faith. Know that we stand with you, that the world stands with you, and that help is on its way.
Mr. Rogers Windows Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities to provide the resources they need to reach their full potential. By undertaking the causes of poverty, injustice, and material needs, the Foundation works to improve our human and planetary condition.
Specific areas of assistance have included education, healthcare, housing, environmental concerns, at-risk youth, emergency response efforts, and religious support. Mr. Rogers hopes to grow the Foundation’s endowment to over $20 million, creating an outlet for his profound sense of generosity, and the legacy he hopes to leave behind.
In the five years since Mr. Rogers Windows Foundation was formed, it has contributed to many organizations: The American Red Cross, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, World Vision, The Make a Wish Foundation, The Salvation Army, as well as numerous religious and human welfare organizations, and those that tackle the causes of poverty and injustice throughout the world.
Obama nominates new head for USAID
AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated a former official at the humanitarian Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to head USAID, the agency tasked with spurring development around the world.
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Obama nominates new head for USAID