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/

Watch Videos on Haiti Relief

- Via WEAR-TV 3/Pensacola, Florida -

PENSACOLA - The Gulf Coast has stepped to the plate in the last few days and your generosity is already making a difference in the lives of Haitians.

Dan Thomas was in Haiti over the weekend to see how medical supplies donated from our area are being put to use here's just some of what he saw.

On Friday local engineer Gene Schmidt took a break from his day job. and got to work.

Thanks to Sacred Heart Hospital, Pediatric Associates and First Methodist Church he has a full plane load of goods headed for Haiti.

Once on the ground Gene connects with Bahamas Habitat dot org... Based in Nassau they're coordinating pilots from all over the world to reach remote areas hurting for supplies.

A costly journey to places where often only small planes can land.

As we open the door in Les Cayes, just outside of Port Au Prince, we're greeted by a group of children.

They're begging for food. Something they do everyday of their lives, but Schmidt only has medical supplies. Which he immediately hands over to a missionary group called r-m-i net dot org.

This is where those supplies go. It's a hospital unlike anything the United States has seen in over a century.

They're doing amputations by the dozens, resetting broken bones, and tending to a host of other problems caused by the quake.

This man is singing christian hymns, hoping to get his mind off the pain. The strongest anthistetic they have here is tylenol.

He was in school in Port Au Prince when a wall fell on his leg.

Doctor Bill Tenhaaf was able to save it by fashioning together a couple of pieces of rebarb to reset the bone.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/rminet.Org clinic: "We're running out of supplies at all 3 hospitals in town. We're making due with what we have as you've already seen from our fellow here. You know we don't have the equipment we need."

The goods from Pensacola will help save lives... But will run out soon.

The wave of wounded has overwhelmed resources in an already impoverished area.

Dr. Bill Tenhaaf/rminet.Org clinic: "We're feeling very good about what we're doing. What we don't' know is how many more people are going to come from Port Au Prince. We just see more and more coming."

In the next few days we'll be bringing you more stories about helping Haitians.

And if you want to help the relief efforts,

Log onto Bahamas habitat -dot-org

And we plan to go back to Haiti this weekend. If you have any questions you want answered or stories you want to see covered. E-mail Dan or leave him a message on Channel Three's Facebook Page.

You can find all this information again by going to weartv-dot-com.

Posted: Tuesday, January 26 2010, 12:41:19 AM