Haiti Donations - Recommended Charitable Organizations

The horrific images of death and devastation coming out of Haiti in the aftermath of Tuesday's earthquake have elicited worldwide sympathy and support.

_{Photo of woman and child in Haiti © Joe Raedle/Getty Images}

If you're wondering which organizations to donate to, here are some suggestions from women who know.

Michelle Wucker, Executive Director of the World Policy Institute and author of the book Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola, brings firsthand knowledge of the region to her selection of these specific charitable organizations:

• Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is putting in place a collaborative relief effort to address immediate needs of the country's population. The organization's short-term objective is to relieve immediate suffering in the surrounding Port-au-Prince areas. Their long-term plan is to repair basic services, deliver sustainable healthcare, and provide training and economic opportunities to women in the border region.
• The Global Syndicate (a new group which includes many young Haitian professionals) is heading up the Haiti Project which will raise over half a million to support existing non-profit organizations that provide life-saving education, health care, and economic development services to Haitian men, women, and children living on the island -- a majority of which survive on less than two dollars per day.
• Yele Haiti is a grassroots movement that builds global awareness for Haiti while helping to transform the country. Yele has just launched the Haiti Earthquake Alliance which has already pulled together four airlifts of medical supplies, food and other emergency supplies along with teams of doctors. These airlifts will go out beginning Saturday. Yele Haiti was founded in 2005 by Grammy-Award winning musician, humanitarian and Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti Wyclef Jean.
• Partners in Health and its partner organization Zanmi Lasante have worked in Haiti for nearly twenty-five years, and today is one of the largest non-governmental health care providers in the country. Familiar to many thanks to the book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder, Paul Farmer and Partners in Health have created the website StandWithHaiti.org to address the specific needs of those affected by the earthquake.
• Lambi Fund of Haiti works toward economic justice, democracy and alternative sustainable development in Haiti. Part of their emergency response to the earthquake includes mobilizing support in rural areas where people who have lost homes are returning, as the Lambi Fund's specialty is in working with rural communities.
• Oxfam, the international organization that fights poverty in over 70 countries, has established the Haiti Earthquake Appeal and is reporting on its efforts in Haiti through podcasts and updates on their wesbite.

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner at MomsRising.org recommends contributing online to the Red Cross . (You can also donate $10 to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting "HAITI" to "90999".) She also suggests  Doctors Without Borders and Paul Farmer's Partners in Health.

Joanne Bamberger at PunditMom.com asks, "What if every blogger and every Twitter user donated just $1 to the relief organization of their choice? There are six million Twitter users and tens of millions of bloggers....Tweet your donation and join this cause by using the hashtag #moms4haiti".

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