If you wish to donate to a Haitian rescue effort I strongly recommend the Los Angeles-based International relief agency Operation USA, run by my long-time friend Richard Walden. The Op USA folks are experts at efficiently getting the right stuff to the right places. (And with Op USA you can be sure that your donation will really be put toward helping the needs of the people of Haiti rather than being sucked into the black hole of administrative costs.)
If you work for a company that has any type of gift matching program (mine does, 100% matching), I encourage you to donate to Haiti Relief. We are talking about a disaster of Biblical proportions – HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEAD. These are our neighbors. I know the ‘times are hard’…
Great recommendation. What a gem of a organization…I’ll help spread the word also.
Let me echo Celeste’s endorsement of Operation USA. Here’s their listing on Charity Navigator. 97.9% of their income goes to their programs. That’s extraoridnarily efficient.
Poor Haiti, the first country in the western hemisphere to throw out the European colonial imperialists and they have been paying for it ever since, now a devastating earthquake.
I hope everyone helps out, I hear the quake and it’s aftermath are beyond imagination.
And to top it off that screwball right wing lobotomy survivor Pat Robertson is at it again. I’m sure any aid his organization provides is welcomed but his southern bible belt opinions surely are not, “The quake was a blessing in disguiseâ€, and the Haitians made a pact with the devil way back there in history and The Haitians were able to throw off slavery and colonialism not due to any self determination and bravery on their part but because they all got together and made a deal with Satan?
What a whackadoddle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUd0U-ZZZgw
thanks. will do.
DQ: Poor Haiti, the first country in the western hemisphere to throw out the European colonial imperialists and they have been paying for it ever since, now a devastating earthquake.
Wow! Who knew that European colonial imperialists could cause earthquakes?!
Woody, DQ was analyzing Pat Robertson’s insinuation, that Haiti got a message from God, or whatever. I know your attention span isn’t your strength, but my goodness, DQ’s comment isn’t that long and it’s pretty simple to understand. What is wrong with you?
I was waiting for the Village Idiot to make his inane, inappropriate comments. Never contributes anything positive to the discussion – just snippets of thinly veiled contempt for the rest of humanity.
Village Idiot? Wow, man, that’s harsh.
BITH couldn’t crush anything when he was called Robbie, a name change means nothing.
The response by the U.S. to the Haiti tragedy shows again what a giving country we live in. Don should visit it some time.
Pat Robertson is not a right wing rep of any serious kind, he’s just a nut like some here who are on the left.
Yes indeed SF, we are a giving country sometimes and I applaud President Obama for his quick response, unlike the disgraceful “Yer doin a good job Brownie” from that other right wing nut (along with Robertson), Dubya in the Katrina debacle.
And maybe you should visit the real USA sometime SF, the country and people where I live, instead of that hate filled, twisted, racist, Wagnerian wet dream of an Aryan Valhalla where the right wing Pat Robertson’s nest.
cukoo! cukoo!