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  • From: Permaculture Cooperative <permaculturecoop@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Haiti Medical and Food Relief
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:06:48 -0800

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From: Food First <foodfirst@foodfirst.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:31 PM
Subject: Haiti Medical and Food Relief
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*Haiti URGENT ACTION ALERT!*

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*Dear Nicholas,
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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*

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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 can
make a tax-deductible donation to Food First
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