Cash is the biggest need. It provides the fastest means for relief. Here are some ways to help and ideas:
Donate $10 to Red Cross 4 Haiti text Haiti to 90999
or to donate $5 via Wycleff Jean’s charity text Yele to 501501
For more information on the American Red Cross Relief For Haiti visit http://newsroom.redcross.org/
You can also visit the Red Cross Chat Room
http://redcrosschat.org/2010/01/12/earthquake-in-haiti/
To find family members in Haiti call 1-888-407-4747
If you would like to help, you can also donate to these groups:
- Save the Children. Donate at http://www.savethechildren.org
or make checks outto “Save the Children” and mail to:
Save the Children Income Processing Department, 54 Wilton Road, Westport, Conn. 06880
- UNICEF. Go online to http://www.unicefusa.org/haitiquake
or call (800) 4UNICEF.
- Red Cross. Go online to http://www.redcross.org and click Donate, or call (800) REDCROSS.
- Direct Relief International. Donate online at http://www.directrelief.org
- Mercy Corp. Go online to http://www.mercycorps.org
or mail checks to Haiti Earthquake Fund
Dept. NR
PO Box 2669
Portland, Ore. 97208
or call (888) 256-1900
