Haiti

Canada has a long history of involvement in Haiti.  Our own Governor General Michaëlle Jean was born in Haiti.  Seeing her talk today   (click on the video link in the right) broke my heart.  I'm just going to provide a few links to people to donate funds.  Even a buck will help.

• Canadian Red Cross 
• American Red Cross 
• Unicef Canada 
• Unicef USA 
• Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) Canadian site
• Medecins sans Frontieres - Int'l site
  
• World Vision (Canadian Site) 
• World Vision (USA site) 
• The Humanitarian Coalition (includes Oxfam, Save the Children, CARE Canada) 
• Yele - Wyclef Jean's Charity 
• Plan Canada 

 Thank you.
 Update:
Mr. CC and I donated to MSF Canada and I received an update by email.

As you read this, MSF medical teams in Port-au-Prince are treating thousands of people who were injured in the quake. Most have fractures, head injuries and other major trauma injuries. We have set up four tented facilities beside the now damaged hospitals we used to work in. The need for wound treatment and major surgery is immense.

Currently, an MSF field hospital is arriving by air, equipped with two operating theatres, along with trauma surgeons and anesthetists. Our teams on the ground in the capital are also trying to identify intact buildings that could be used to do surgery.

Food, water and shelter materials are all in short supply, but medical stocks are not yet exhausted. Forty tonnes of material will arrive on the ground tonight, conditions permitting, and an additional 80 staff will join the more than 800 MSF staff already working in Haiti. Teams will be distributing medical disaster kits, blankets, plastic sheeting, hygiene and cooking sets, tents and jerrycans.

You can continue to help by forwarding this message or sharing it with your networks on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you for your solidarity at this most difficult time.

Marilyn McHarg
General Director, MSF Canada

Also Ms. Kathy at The Fandom Gives Back is having a little fund raiser of sorts.  Donate 5 bucks to the charity of your choice, email the receipt to her  and she'll send ya a lemony story- right to your inbox!!  Go do it!!!