Tough Love Travel: Numerous Opportunities to help the Innumerable in Need

I couldn’t blog about idyllic days in Paradise anymore, without cringing over the devastated "paradise" of Haiti.

You need motivation to step in and help? Here’s some on-the-ground footage, “Streets Full of Bodies”, from the island of Haiti, on YouTube!

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/

Kids, doctors, lost people, and poor people who are injured, trapped, thirsty, hungry, and newly-homeless all need our help! Pick your place….

Text message a donation! It simply goes on your bill at the end of the month! Here’s how you do it:

▪ Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross

▪ Text HAITI to 25383 to donate $5 to International Rescue Committee

▪ Text HAITI to 45678 to donate $5 to the Salvation Army in Canada

▪ Text YELE to 501501 to donation $5 to Yele

▪ Text RELIEF to 30644 to get automatically connected to Catholic Relief Services and donate money with your credit card

▪ Text HAITI to 864833 to donate $5 to The United Way

▪ Text CERF to 90999 to donate $5 to The United Nations Foundation

▪ Text DISASTER to 90999 to donate $10 to Compassion International

Help find a person! Through Google, share information on the whereabouts or or for loved ones of the earthquake at

http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/#help

and scroll down to the People Finder box!

Americans seeking information can also call 888-407-4747, use the tracing form (http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/), or go to this link for updates (http://blogs.state.gov/)

On this page, you can also donate funds to Unicef, whose monies are focused on supporting children separated from their families and preventing their exploitation.

Join the big movement with Clinton/Bush! Leading figures of the 2 political parties are joining forces to help Haiti. Join their effort: http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/

Or just help a tiny corner…

Lia is an American whose tiny orphanage for 13 AIDS orphans has been destroyed but who has survived with all “her” kids! You can read her earthquake story at the link below! To help rebuild their orphanage/school, you can:

#1 Make a quick cash donation

#2 Get personal, choosing WHICH BRICK you want to rebuild… the Kid Home, the Clinic, the School… something as large as land to build on or as small as a kid’s meal (48 cents) or a bar of soap ($1.39) There’s even a drop-n-drag shopping basket! Here’s the link:

https://wecanbuildanorphanage.com/

Here’s her earthquake story on her blog:

http://www.wecanbuildanorphanageblog.com/lias-story-part-i/

You can follow her recovery on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/WeCanBuildanOrphanagecom/73744112352?ref=ts

Habitat for Humanity has been working in Haiti for the past 26 years, and has a Haiti Earthquake Fund to collect donations focused on rebuilding housing for the over 1 million people in disaster:
https://www.habitat.org/cd/giving/donate.aspx?link=227&media=Google&source_code=DHQMW0000W1129&keyword=help%20to%20haiti&utm_source=google-pd&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=help%20to%20haiti&utm_campaign=haiti

Focus on medical help through Doctors Without Borders,

specifically for funding medical teams to get to Haiti with supplies and medical treatment:

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&hbc=1&source=ADR1001E1D01

Focus on Food! Food For The Poor is the #1 international relief and development charity in the US for feeding the “poorest of the poor”:

http://www.foodforthepoor.org/help/quake_updates/

Click the button on the upper right to donate.

Focus on children and families with Save The Children

and their HAITI EARTHQUAKE CHILDREN IN EMERGENCY Fund:

https://secure.savethechildren.org/01/web_e_haiti_earthquake_10?source=gp_e_haiti&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=gp_e_haiti&gclid=CJWRruSwq58CFVw55QodcEOw1Q

Focus your help through religious affiliations…

Catholic: http://crs.org/

Jewish: https://secure.ajws.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3460&3460.donation=form1