Haiti Relief

From ME To Haiti
01/19/10

WGME 13 is proud to team up with the City of Portland and Konbit Sante for a telethon to raise money for the relief efforts in Haiti. From ME To Haiti begins with live broadcasts from Portland City Hall during Daybreak on Thursday, January 21. There will also be live broadcasts at Noon, Live at Five and News 13 at 6:00. Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization based in Portland that has been working to improve healthcare in Cap-Haitien and northern Haiti for nearly a decade. The organization already has Mainers on the ground in Haiti trying to help with relief efforts. The money raised during Thursday's telethon will go directly to Konbit Sante's efforts in Haiti. You'll hear more on just how great the need is, the great work Konbit Sante has already done, and what the group hopes to do in Haiti with your help. It's a chance to provide desperately needed aid - From ME to Haiti, all day Thursday, only on WGME 13. For more information, head to healthyhaiti.org.

How You Can Help Haiti
01/14/10

Below is a list of organizations and contact numbers if you are interested in donating or helping in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The U.S. State Department Operations Center said Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call 1-888-407-4747. Due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording.

Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420

American Red Cross, 800-733-2767

American Jewish World Service, 212-792-2900

AmeriCares, 800-486-4357

Beyond Borders, 866-424-8403

CARE, 800-521-2273

Catholic Relief Services, 800-736-3467

Childcare Worldwide, 800-553-2328

Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767

Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392

Feed My Starving Children, 763-504-2919

Food for the Poor, 800-427-9104

Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694

Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357

Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183

International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462

International Relief Teams, 619-284-7979

Medical Teams International, 800-959-4325

Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634

Mennonite Central Committee, 888-563-4676

Mercy Corps, 888-256-1900

Operation USA, 800-678-7255

Oxfam, 800-776-9326

Partners in Health, 617-432-5298

The Salvation Army, 800-725-2769

Samaritan's Purse, 828-262-1980

Save the Children, 800-728-3843

UNICEF, 800-367-5437

World Concern, 800-755-5022

World Vision, 888-511-6548

Former Lewiston Man Blog On Devastation In Haiti
01/14/10

http://pwojeespwa.blogspot.com/

Maine Volunteers Helping Haiti
01/14/10

Konbit Sante is a non-profit organization in the Portland area that's been volunteering their time to strengthen Haiti's healthcare system. Help them as they head to the country devastated by an earthquake.
http://www.healthyhaiti.org/

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- Via WEAR-TV 3/Pensacola, Florida -

HAITI - Les Cayes has more than doubled in population, with new people arriving constantly. Many wind up at one of the city's 3 hospitals.

Dr. Robert Legr/Managing 2 Hospitals: "You are going to see most of them are bone fractures."

Doctor Robert Legr was retired. The earthquake spurred him back to work. Now he's the de facto manager of two hospitals, all the while seeing patients and doing surgeries.

Dr. Robert Legr/Manages Hospitals: "She had blunt trauma when I received her the first day. She had her bladder completely, open by the shock."

The hospitals are well over capacity.

Dr. Robert Legr/Manages Hospitals: "This person has already been operated, but we don't have beds."

Those with less serious injuries go to the tent city.

Dr. Robert Legr/Manages Hospitals: "Today I saw more tents, so they are arriving."

We just arrived here in this tent city in downtown Les Cayes, they say more people keep arriving here by the day, coming in mostly from Port Au Prince. The group that we're with, Bahamas Habitat and Reciprocal Ministries, are dropping off these supplies here. They're packed up by First Methodist Church in downtown Pensacola. The doctors say these are going to go a long way.

Dr. Robert Legr/Manages Hospitals: "They have no money at all, so even to buy soap, they cannot do that."

Dr. Robert Legr/Manages Hospitals: "So this is very important. What you did is very good. I think that this kind of help is very useful, is very practical."

But other needs are going unmet, namely surgeons and surgical tools.

Dr. Robert Legr/Managing 2 Hospitals: "Bones, and bones and bones all of them waiting for orthopedic surgeons to be operated."

Missionaries from RMINet.org have located doctors willing to work.

Dan Shoemaker/RMInet.org: "3 teams that would come today, but we can't find any planes to get them here. Transportation is one of our, it's killing us, out here in Cayes."

Posted: Thursday, January 28 2010, 08:18:35 PM