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From: "Food First" <foodfirst@foodfirst.org>
Date: January 13, 2010 3:30:51 PM PST
To: drwillhite@earthlink.net
Subject: Haiti Medical and Food Relief
Reply-To: foodfirst@foodfirst.org




Haiti URGENT ACTION ALERT!
Dear Friend,

Urgent Action is needed to prevent more deaths in Haiti.

Not all aid is equal as we all learned from the fiasco in the  
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Haiti’s January 12 earthquake has  
left thousands dead. Many more need urgent medical attention. Here is  
a short list of organizations that Food First is confident can  
address both urgent medical needs and prevent a deepening hunger  
crisis.  Partners in Health and Doctors Without Borders have had a  
strong presence in Haiti prior to the quake. They are in a position  
to implement and advise on urgent medical care. Donations of cash are  
the best way to help meet the urgent needs in a timely manner.

With many Haitians already malnourished prior to this devastating  
earthquake, food is also urgently needed. Farmers in other parts of  
the country are growing food that can be purchased and given to those  
in and around Port-au-Prince. Both Grassroots International and their  
Haitian Partners and Haiti Action can help make such people to people  
exchanges possible.

Partners in Health

Founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, this nonprofit health delivery program  
has served Haiti’s poor since 1987. To donate for earthquake relief,  
go to https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake? 
source=earthquake&subsource=homepage
In an urgent email from Port-au-Prince, Louise Ivers, Partners in  
Health clinical director in Haiti, appealed for assistance from her  
colleagues in the Central Plateau: "Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot  
of deaths. SOS. SOS... Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs  
supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us."

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Doctors Without Borders was working in Haiti prior to the quake with  
a staff of 800. Here is a report on January 13, 2009 with a link to  
their donation page.
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=4148&cat=field-news

Haiti Action

Haiti’s grassroots movement – including labor unions, women’s groups,  
educators, human rights activists, support committees for prisoners  
and agricultural cooperatives – will attempt to funnel needed aid to  
those most hit by the earthquake. Grassroots organizers are doing  
what they can with the most limited of funds to make a difference.  
Please take this opportunity to lend them your support.
http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/1_12_10.html

Grassroots International

Long time Food First partner Grassroots International has a long  
history of working with organizations on the ground in Haiti.  
Grassroots has committed to the extent possible to, “provide cash to  
our partners to make local purchases of the items they most need and  
to obtain food from farmers not hit by the disaster.”
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/news/blog/all-hands-responding-haiti- 
emergency

P.S.  Food First's work is primarily funded by folks like you. You  
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