During this American Recession, how can WE help HAITI?
Everyone can help in THEIR own way…everyone!!
You can donate to the Red Cross www.redcross.org or another legitimate organization helping Haiti.
Offering prayer is a wonderful thing or ask your Church (or Mosque, or Temple, or etc,) to gather donations for Haiti.
Some friends donated their time by participating in “call centers”…they speak the Haitian language.
Other friends who said they could not afford to give, re-evaluated their own situation and gave up 3 lattes or 5 cups of coffee (the equivalent to $10) to give UNICEF http://www.unicef.ca/portal/SmartDefault.aspx what they would normally spend on themselves in a week.
My son’s high school (and many, many other schools) asked students to give donations.
Musician Wyclef Jean has used Twitter to rally web users to contribute to his grassroots Yele Haiti earthquake fund. He’s urged his followers to text “Yele” to the number 501501. If you send the text, the organization will receive $5. The amount will be added to your next cell phone bill. Consider retweeting Wyclef’s updates and get some of your Twitter followers to donate, too.
This is the ONLY “text-a-donation” that H. Luiz Presents endorses: You can text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 via the Red Cross. There are a lot of scams out there with slight number changes like 90909 or 990990 – be careful!
Companies with hundreds of employees can setup a “check system” where each employee can donate at least $1 directly from their paychecks. My Partner’s very large corporation has donated over $500,000.00 to date via this system (they have literally thousands of employees in NYC alone.) This parent company is also matching dollar for dollar what the Red Cross is receiving as a personal donation. WOW!!
*Thank you, Rosie O’Donnell for the video!! 
