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Want to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti? Here's a list of organizations accepting donations:
- InterAction, a coalition of U.S.-based international non-governmental organizations, has a list of agencies responding and how to donate to them. Find it here: http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti - To donate $5 to Wyclef Jean's Haitian Yele charity, text 501501. The money will be added to your next phone bill. - To find out how to help the International Rescue Committee, visit www.theIRC.org or call toll free, 1-877-REFUGEE. Secretary of State Clinton has set up an aid line that people can use to send money to support Haiti relief similar to what was set up to support refugees in Pakistan earlier this year. Cell phone users can text "haiti" to 90999 and $10 will go to relief efforts in Haiti. The $10 will show up on your phone bill.
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE • The State Department has set up a toll-free number to call for information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747. • www.state.gov YELE HAITI EARTHQUAKE FUND • www.yele.org • Text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 via your cell phone AMERICAN RED CROSS • Text "HAITI" to "90999" to make a $10 donation. The amount will be added to your next phone bill. The organization is also accepting donations through its International Response Fund. • 2025 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 • (800) REDCROSS (800-257-7575) • www.redcross.org OXFAM AMERICA
226 Causeway St., 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02114-2206
• (800) 77-OXFAM (776-9326)
THE SALVATION ARMY
615 Slaters Lane
P.O. Box 269
Alexandria, VA 22313
SAVE THE CHILDREN Haiti Earthquake Children in Emergency Fund 54 Wilton Road Westport, Conn. 06880 • (800) 728-3843 WORLD VISION Haiti Earthquake Relief P.O. Box 9716 Federal Way, Wash. 98063-9716 • (888) 511-6548 CARE
151 Ellis Street
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
• (800) 521-CARE (521-2273)
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA/MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF) 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001-5004 • (888) 392-0392 INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES P.O. Box 630225 Baltimore, Md.. 21263-0225 • (877) 803-4622 U.S. FUND FOR UNICEF 125 Maiden Lane New York, N.Y. 10038 • (800) FOR-KIDS (367-5437) • FOOD FOR THE POOR www.foodforthepoor.org • CONCERN Donation Phone #: 800 59-CONCERN Donation Address: 104 East 40th Street, Room 903 New York, NY, 10016 www.concern-worldwide.org Concern Worlwide US calls on the public for urgent support to allow the agency to provide food, water, shelter and medicine as the immediate priority for those that have survived the catastrophe.
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