Good Deed Friday: Homegrown Help for Haiti
I’m sure you’ve all been reading news stories about the slow struggle in Haiti continuing.
Maybe you’ve already donated to one of the great organizations suggested yesterday by our senior editor, Jane. So what’s next?
We’ve been hearing from a lot of our friends who are taking part in more homegrown and targeted (but completely legit) relief efforts. Check them out and let us know what you and your loved ones are doing to help!
- Our friend Casey (that’s her with all those cute kids) spent Thanksgiving working at the Fondation Rose-Mina de Diegue orphanage—which provides food, housing and love to about 70 kids. Casey just got word that the kids are safe, an unbelievable blessing. So she’s asking that donations to the orphanage be made through Partners in Progress. If you’d like to check them out or donate, click here, select “Make a Donation” and choose “Little Flower / Rosa Mina” in the first pull down menu.
- The nice folks at at the cloth diaper company, Happy Heinys need reusable diapers and baby clothes, which they will bring directly to orphanages they have worked with in the Port-au-Prince area. Please send as quickly as possible to:
Happy Heinys
1529 N Cuyamaca St
El Cajon CA 92020
please mark box for donation
- Charles King, president and CEO of Housing Works, an amazing NYC-based nonprofit, will travel to Haiti this week to deliver supplies and meet with a coalition of Haitian AIDS service groups. With their help, Housing Works will do all they can to make sure the poor living with AIDS in Haiti get safe refuge and medical treatment. Donate here.
- Some great people we know are involved with the Church World Service, which will be distributing baby care and emergency hygiene kits in Haiti. Putting together kits could be a great family or neighborhood project. Download a kit guide here.
And finally, we want you to let you know about two Etsy shops that will be open any day now.
- Craft Hope for Hait is looking for crafters to donate items for auction. All the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders. Click here to find out how to donate your creations.
- Hearts for Haiti, set up by our friend Victoria (that’s one of her handmade books, below), is already overflowing with skilled crafters getting ready to donate great stuff. Click here to sign up for an alert that will tell you when the store is open for business, then buy a great gift for yourself or a friend. All the proceeds from this one will go to Doctors Without Borders too.
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