Haiti: Ways to Find Information and Take Action

The images coming out of Haiti in the days since the devastating earthquake have been horrifying. Although the news today is beginning to report increasingly unsettled conditions, there continues to be a flood of support for the rescue and relief efforts.

A few members of the Poptech community have been directly involved:

Ushahidi (founded by Poptech Social Innovation Fellows Ory Orkolloh and Erik Hersman), has launched a Haiti deployment to aggregate information about the ongoing response efforts including missing persons reports, emerging threats, and survivor news:

haiti.ushahidi.com


The Ushahidi Situation Room, Day 3

- For extensive coverage, the Global Voices Haiti Earthquake 2010 page has aggregated posts, blogs, Twitter feeds, and resources.

For members of the PopTech community looking to help, here are a few ways:

- Charity Navigator recommends sending money and not supplies to an established charity. They’ve posted guidelines on choosing the right charity to help fund Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts.

- Partners in Health, a healthcare organization, has been working on the ground in Haiti for more than twenty years. You can donate here.

Serena Koenig, Director of Haiti programs for Partners in Health, spoke at PopTech 2006 on the PIH philosophy: equal lives deserve equal treatment.

- The Red Cross has set up a mobile site (text “Haiti” to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross) where they have reportedly raised more than $5 million. (More text donation options from MobileActive.

- The Extraordinaries has set up a page that is crowdsourcing efforts to help locate and identify the missing. They have built a facial recognition system that allows individuals to match photos or videos of missing people with news images coming out of Haiti.

- Haiti Open Street Map is using GeoEye imagery to tag collapsed buildings and help later reconstruction efforts.

- The Haiti Missing Persons Index, the Haiti Volunteer Network, and the Haitian Earthquake Registry are other ways to locate people and opportunities to help.

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Coco-cropped-lg Name: Cordelia Newlin de Rojas

For those considering donations please chose your card carefully as most of them take a 3% transaction fee off the funds donated. American Express has announced its plans to waive fees and capital one already has a permanent program in place.

Colleen, thank you for this great post.

Name: Kim

Thanks so much for your post Colleen!

Kim Bale
The Extraordinaries
www.BeExtra.org
kim@beextra.org

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