Poor Haiti

[DANNO]

yesterday there was a national fundraising day for Haiti on radio and tv in Holland, they raised 41.5 million Euro, which is doubled by the government,so we can donate a total of 83 million Euro! This can never replace the loss of families and tragedies...but hopefully it will help to rebuild this country to a normal level again..

wow ..very impressive ! :thumbleft:

[pandorea]

yesterday there was a national fundraising day for Haiti on radio and tv in Holland, they raised 41.5 million Euro, which is doubled by the government,so we can donate a total of 83 million Euro! This can never replace the loss of families and tragedies...but hopefully it will help to rebuild this country to a normal level again..

You Holland people are richer than the Dane.

Crossing fingers, and hopping *we* are gonna beat you. (The Danish government gave 10 million dollars once and they didn't say anything ever since. They are not interested in double anything. Cheap bastard! :evil: )

[SoBeIt]

Rescuers Pull Haitian Man From Deep Under Rubble

International team saves Haitian man buried deep under rubble of hotel grocery store

An international team of rescuers unearthed a shop clerk in good condition from deep beneath the concrete and wooden wreckage of a hotel grocery store Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake crumbled Haiti's capital.

Dozens of onlookers wearing masks against the stench of the city's decaying bodies cheered when Wismond Exantus, clad in a black T-shirt and black pants, was carried from a narrow tunnel on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance. He braced one arm with the other.

"I was hungry," Exantus told The Associated Press from his hospital bed soon after the rescue. "But every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive."

Read more - http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9643581

[Admin_2]

Rescuers Pull Haitian Man From Deep Under Rubble

International team saves Haitian man buried deep under rubble of hotel grocery store

An international team of rescuers unearthed a shop clerk in good condition from deep beneath the concrete and wooden wreckage of a hotel grocery store Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake crumbled Haiti's capital.

Dozens of onlookers wearing masks against the stench of the city's decaying bodies cheered when Wismond Exantus, clad in a black T-shirt and black pants, was carried from a narrow tunnel on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance. He braced one arm with the other.

"I was hungry," Exantus told The Associated Press from his hospital bed soon after the rescue. "But every night I thought about the revelation that I would survive."

Read more - http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9643581

11 days?!!

I guess the place to get buried is in a grocery store if you get stuck in an earthquake!

[LakeGeneve]

Day 10: a 84 yr old woman and 21 yr old man are rescued from the rubble,

Day 11: we have 24 yr old 'coke' man (above posts) - I can see a coke ad there somewhere,

Day 14: US troops pull out a severely dehydrated 31 yr old man,

AND

Day 15: a 15 yr old girl is rescued and look at her smile!

Bloody fantastic news for everyone. If that doesn't bring a smile to anyone having a gloomy day, then not much will!

[LakeGeneve]

Latest estimates from the Haitian govt are that 230 000 people died in the quake!

Nearly a million are left homeless, only a quarter already being sheltered with shelter kits and the rainy season is soon approaching. Providing more shelter and improving sanitation seem to be the current priorities.

It is suggested that it will take some 10 yrs to rebuild all housing.

OCHA Situation Report #19

[LakeGeneve]

There is a donors conference for rebuilding Haiti in NY on Wed.

It is estimated that Haiti has immediate needs of $4 billion and that rebuilding will take 10 years requiring nearly $12 billion in total.

Haiti's government has reported 222,570 people killed in the quake, but President Rene Preval says the real final death toll could be over 300,000. A similar number were injured.

- Around 1.5 million people were left homeless and displaced by the disaster. Around 600,000 fled the wrecked capital Port-au-Prince.

- Haiti's government has estimated the economic damage and loss from the quake at close to $8 billion. Economists from the Inter-American Development Bank had previously given an estimated damage range of between $8 billion and nearly $14 billion.

- In Port-au-Prince, which concentrates 65 percent of Haiti's economic activity, more than 100,000 homes were destroyed and over 200,000 damaged. More than 1,300 education centers and more than 50 hospitals and clinics collapsed. The country's main port, presidential palace, parliament, justice palace and most ministries were destroyed.

- Leogane, a town southwest of Port-au-Prince, was 80 percent destroyed.

FACTBOX-Haiti's quake recovery needs run into billions

[LakeGeneve]

I was really heartened to read this article in the POst yesterday. It highlights how those with the least of means can often be the most compassionate relative to their circumstances.

Nice to read such stories when so often we discuss the negative aspects of humanity.

From Klong Toey, with love

The uplifting story of how the residents of Bangkok's biggest slum banded together to help the people of Haiti 4/04/2010 Bkk Post Spectrum

When Haiti was devastated by an earthquake on Jan 12, there was an outpouring of compassion and financial support from around the globe for the impoverished nation. As celebrity telethons were held in the US and UK to raise millions of dollars for Haiti, Thailand also managed to raise US$15 million (483 million baht).

BIG-HEARTED: The people of Klong Toey gave what they could for the earthquake victims in Haiti.

None, however, expected any of the $15 million to come from the slum community of Klong Toey. After all, poor people are not seen as able to give assistance, only receive it.

However, for the slum-dwellers of Klong Toey, the loss suffered by Haitians halfway around the world, was, for many of them, something they could relate to and, despite all their difficulties and hardship, they felt they needed to do something to help.

So to mark Valentine's Day, the Klong Toey slum-dwellers and 50 squatter communities in Bangkok held a fundraising event to help the Haiti earthquake victims, with assistance from the Duang Prateep foundation, an organisation that has been working with urban slum communities since 1978.

"People in Klong Toey face many difficulties, from drains bursting during floods and fires destroying their houses, so people really understand how it feels to lose something. When people saw what was happening to Haitians on television, it struck a chord with them," said founder Prateep Ungsongtham Hata.

Community youth members equipped with megaphones, donation boxes and signs asking slum-dwellers to unite behind their Haitian friends walked along the alleyways, stopping anyone interested in making a contribution.

GIVING SOMETHING BACK: On the donation trail.

On Valentine's night, the network of 50 squatter communities also held a second-hand goods night bazaar in Klong Toey, to raise funds to support the initiative.

Ms Prateep recalls one of the Klong Toey residents, amputee Mr Winnai, approaching the fund-raising team in his wheelchair to pledge his donation.

"Mr Winnai's words were so memorable. He said that even though we are poor, we are better off than the Haitians because at least when we don't have food to eat we can still go to the wat [temple], but all the wats [in Haiti] have been destroyed," said Ms Prateep.

"We managed to raise more than 100,000 baht that day and we would like to make a donation through Save the Children, an organisation which helped our work tremendously during the Thailand tsunami response in 2004," said the former slum-dweller and winner of Asia's version of the Nobel Prize - the Magsaysay award for public service.

Save the Children helped the Duang Prateep Foundations' work during the tsunami by providing "emotional-support activities", including theatre workshops, puppet caravans, children's camps and day trips for the affected children it was working with.

Greg Duly, regional director for Save the Children UK in Asia, who received the donation on behalf of the organisation, told Ms Prateep: "Slum-dwellers often live in difficult social economic conditions and this show of generosity from the people of Klong Toey needs to be acknowledged and publicised - it's really an inspiration to us all."

Haitian-born Marie Ange Sylvain-Holmgren, a long-time friend of the Duang Prateep foundation who came up with the idea after talking to the people of Klong Toey slum, said: "When these people give it's from the heart. People give a big warm smile when they fold their wrinkled notes and slot them into the donation box. "I've personally lost 11 of my family members and been to four funerals already, so the warmth shown by the Klong Toey community is invaluable."

[DANNO]

I've just donated $3 through youtube

Cant donate much because I dont have much too lol

Its very true what danno said. You done what you can. Ive also donated a few bucks...Every little counts. 8)

LG -----> nice post to read (above)

even more to the point that Gorgeous and Teddy made...

for somethings, and in some ways we are all in these things togeather

(Mexico 7.2 ...yesterday --- yikes the earth is active) :shock:

[LakeGeneve]

Remembering those who died in Haiti a year ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/world/americas/11haiti.html?ref=americas