"Every third building is in ruins" in the capital of Haiti including the UN building and the presidential palace. Every hospital is either abandoned or in ruins.
Thousands of bodies are stacked in the streets.
Give a few bucks for rescue efforts in the single porest nation of the western hemisphere. It's tough not to give something, especially after the US government deposed their elected leader, and far worse:
But we'll save arguments for another disaster... this one happened last night.
Hilltop video looking across the entire city.
But, BEWARE...
- Some cell phone carriers deduct a 50 percent from SMS donations.
- Without a presence already on-the-ground, a non-profit can't delivering post-quake aid
The most effective NGOs working in Haiti appear below with links to their Haiti-specific donations:
• Partners in Health is the NGO founded in Haiti in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, the renowned physician and anthropologist who focuses on international social justice. The group’s emergency response focuses on delivering medical supplies and staff. Louise Ivers, PIH’s clinical director in the country, sent the message, “Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS.” Donate here http://bit.ly/5ZA7Zm
• MADRE, the international women’s rights NGO, partners with the Zanmi Lasante Clinic on the ground in Haiti. “The most urgent needs right now are bandages, broad-spectrum antibiotics and other medical supplies, as well as water tablets to prevent cholera outbreaks,” MADRE reports. Donate here: http://bit.ly/6eKeDd
• Action Against Hunger has had a team in Haiti since 1985, and is ready to fly planeloads of emergency supplies from Paris to Port-au-Prince. Food is one necessity, but so is sanitation; in some Haitian towns, 70 percent of homes do not have plumbing. Donate here: http://bit.ly/7Gndqt
• UNICEF, the United Nations Fund focusing on children, has worked on the ground in Haiti since 1949, so has the expertise to make a difference. You can donate here. Donate here: http://bit.ly/8RT4CQ
• Doctors Without Borders is also present in-country. One senior staff member reports, “The situation is chaotic. I visited five medical centers, including a major hospital, and most of them were not functioning.” Donate here:http://bit.ly/7CQtMC
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That piece describes U.S. Col. Pat Collins helping Toto Constant start a secret police that later becomes FRAPH, the murder+ rape squad that deposed Aristide. After Clinton reinstated Aristide, Toto Constant was recognized by the Haitian community selling real estate in NYC where he lives at the invitation of the CIA, both to keep him quiet about the u.s. role in Haiti and presumably as an ongoing asset.
ReplyDelete"If you're going to recruit in a terrorist group like FRAPH, you're not going to get any functional equivalent ... [of] a Western democrat ... To find out what's going on, you rather rapidly end up in the same position as the FBI with the Mafia—recruiting and paying money and even granting freedom to lower-level folks, even some high-level folks." -Senior CIA Officer.