GET INVOLVED: WAYS YOU CAN HELP HAITI

Friday January 15, 2010
Local and national efforts providing disaster relief

GET INVOLVED: WAYS YOU CAN HELP HAITI
Our hearts and thoughts are with the people of Haiti who are suffering unimaginable loss following Tuesday afternoon's 7.0 magnitude earthquake and the 29 aftershocks. As reports begin to come in, we now know another earthquake has struck the island again today furthering the devastation of families and the small country. A gift of any size can help provide food, medical care, shelter, and many other basic needs. Here are ways you can get involved by making a donation through local disaster relief efforts as well as international aid.
Local efforts providing disaster relief include the following:

Remote Area Medical Foundation
1834 Beech Street
Knoxville, TN 37920
1-877-5RAMUSA
865-579-1530
www.ramusa.org/
Current operations include: Flying in supplies and relief workers for medical services.

Give Haiti Hope
If you would like to help by making a donation (monetary or supplies) or getting involved as a volunteer, please contact the Haiti Outreach Program at the email address below:
www.helpnow@givehaitihope.org
Donations can also be sent to:

Haiti Outreach Program
711 Northshore Drive
Knoxville, Tennessee 37919
www.givehaitihope.org
Please make checks payable to Haiti Outreach Program. If you have questions about your donation, please email or call Helen Catanch at Sacred Heart Cathedral at (865) 588-0249.

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) for the Haiti Fund.
er-d.org/ or call 800.334.7626, ext. 5129. Gifts can be mailed to Episcopal Relief & Development, PO Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058. Please put "Haiti Fund" in the memo line of all checks.
Current operations include: delivering life-saving supplies such as medicine, blankets and food for emergency shelters or camps, trauma counseling and psycho-social services to survivors, helping repair and construct homes, schools, health clinics, roads, water systems and community centers to replace those destroyed by disaster.

Partners In Health
www.pih.org/home.html
888 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: +1 617-432-5256
Fax: +1 617-432-5300
Email: info@pih.org

Please send all donations to:
Partners In Health
P.O. Box 845578
Boston, MA 02284-5578
Current operations include: Providing medical care through 2 hospitals that are still operational near Port-au-Prince. Funds are desperately needed to purchase antibiotics and medical supplies.

The Lambi Fund of Haiti
A community foundation like organization whose mission is to create change with: improved economic conditions, increased availability of food, reduced soil erosion, improved environment, increased availability of potable water, increased gender equity, improved democratic functioning,

www.lambifund.org/
US Office:
Lambi Fund of Haiti
PO Box 18955
Washington, DC 20036

Haiti Office:
#94 Avenue Lamartinière
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(not a mailing address - Haiti does not have reliable postal delivery)
Phone:
US: 202-833-3713
Haiti: 509-2-245-9445

Other agencies providing disaster relief directly or through partners include the following nonprofit organizations. Click on the following links:
American Red Cross

American Jewish World Service

Beyond Borders

Christian Reformed World Ministries

Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids

Doctors Without Borders

If you are an East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) Fund Holder interested in donating through an advised fund or to a specific, but less well-known relief agency, please call Terry Holley at ETF. She will provide assistance in helping you reach the charity of your choice 865-524-1223 toll free 877-524-1223 or by e-mail tholley@etf.org

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