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How You Can Help After The Earthquake In Haiti

AMERICAN RED CROSS
Visit redcross.org
1-800-RED-CROSS
To help immediately with relief efforts, text HAITI to 90999 and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross and charged to your cell phone bill.

THE SALVATION ARMY
Visit salvationarmyusa.org
1-800-725-2769
Text HAITI to 52000 and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Salvation Army and charged to your cell phone bill

UNICEF
Visit unicefusa.org
1-800-4-UNICEF or 1-800-367-5437

AMERICARES
Visit americares.org
1-800-486-4357

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Visit doctorswithoutborders.org
1-888-392-0392

SAVE THE CHILDREN
Visit savethechildren.org
1-800-728-3843

MERCY CORPS
Visit mercycorps.org
1-888-256-1900

FOR THOSE SEEKING FAMILY MEMBERS:
Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call the U.S. State Department hotline at 1-888-407-4747 or visit state.gov. The International Red Cross is also working to re-unite and re-establish contact amongst family members. The IRC has established a Family Links / Haiti Earthquake page for this purpose, CLICK HERE to visit it.

Please remember that in this time of great need, there are always those who would like to use the tragedy in Haiti for their own profit. The FBI urges people who are looking for ways to help with earthquake relief to be wary of solicitations that could be from scam artists.

"Past tragedies and natural disasters have prompted individuals with criminal intent to solicit contributions purportedly for a charitable organization or a good cause," the FBI said, in passing along these tips:

  • Ignore unsolicited e-mails, and do not click on links within those messages.
  • Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as surviving victims or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social networking sites.
  • Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, because the files may contain computer viruses. Open attachments only from know senders.
  • Decline to give personal or financial information to anyone who solicits contributions.
  • Make contributions directly to known organizations, rather than relying on others who claim in e-mails that they will channel the donation to established groups.


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