Supporting Haiti with replyforall

This morning, a 6.1 aftershock quake hit Port-au-Prince.  While families search for food, water, and missing people, replyforall keeps Haiti in the forefront of our thoughts.

Americans are showing that little by little, individual actions are making a difference.  After last Tuesday’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti, over $200 million have been raised through texts, calls, and mail.  And over $22 million was raised for the Red Cross through ten dollar donations made by texting “HAITI” to 90999.

Our nonprofit partner, Partners In Health, has been on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years.  PIH co-founder, Paul Farmer, wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about what can be done right now to best help the survivors in Haiti, because “there are lessons to be learned from our efforts, not always honorable or effective, to help Haiti over the past two centuries. This can change and must do so, if we are to be real partners in responding to this latest misfortune.”

One of Farmer’s suggestions was not to give in-kind donations, but financial ones.  We know that small amounts can make a huge difference, and we are urging our replyforall users to do their part by sending emails.  One thing that is needed by the earthquake survivors, and by the PIH doctors who are caring for them, is clean water.  Your clean water cause signature raises donations for Partners In Health (and Engineers without Borders) with every email you send.

And you’ll notice that, in our sponsor section of the signature, there is a link for your email recipients to learn more about how to help Partners In Health in their relief efforts in Haiti.  It’s important that we do as much as we can, as soon as we can.  So if you can donate, text GIVE to 25383 to donate $10 to Partners in Health.  If you can’t donate, please put out the word through your emails for others who can!

You can also keep up with what Partners In Health is doing in Haiti by following them on Twitter, @PIH_org.

Fight the Good Fight,

Johanna Hudgens

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	1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.
	By using this email signature, Johanna and Partners In Health provided an hour of clean water for 846 people.

Related articles to check out:

• If Haiti is to `build back better’ (3quarksdaily.com)
• Local donors dig deep for quake victims (windsorstar.com)
• Haiti devastation emerges (theworld.org)

Tags: Caribbean, clean water, Earthquake, Haiti, Johanna Hudgens, Miami Herald, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Port-au-Prince, Replyforall

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