Haiti

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Tips for Safe and Efficient Haiti Donations

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/ ... elp-haiti/

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http://www.wfp.org/

Trying to figure out how I can text them five dollars. I would like to do more but I am a ner do well. That is all I can afford right now.

[Arcadia]

There was a festival here last week organized by the National University of Rosario - Facultad of Medicine- (there are haitian students attending classes there, they will be the help-direct-nexo in Haiti- and there is also a Comite for catástrofes or something like that working in the Facultad also reciving donations in especie) and the local government and with the contribution of local musicians. The cost of the ticket was 10 pesos. There are also bonos of 10 pesos still in sale and an open cuenta for donations in the Banco Municipal. Our pesos are not a lot of money in the rest of the world but everything sums! . There were also critics about the festival by some people in the tone of "we have a lot of people living in poverty in our city and country -like the toba communities- and nobody organizes a festival for them, let´s take care of the near instead of the Haiti... As everything it has a part of truth... but I think it not invalidates the effort in helping another country, I hope that part of truth gives encoraugment, instead!

http://www.unr.edu.ar/infoblog_nota/2316/sdfsdf

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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. For three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant spilt blood and tears for blacks. So the Haitians got no answer to their prayers. Even when they fought and driven out the white oppressors, oppression did not cease. They sougt peace under kingdoms and other ruling names. They sought it in the high cold, beautiful montains of the island and the in the sudden small alluvial plans, but it eluded them and vanished from their hands

A prophet could have foretold it was to come to them from another land and another people utterly unlike the Haitian people in any respect. The prophet might have said, “Your freedom from strife, and your peace shall come when these symbols shall appear. There shall come a voice in the night. A new and bloody river shall pour from a man-made rock in your chief city. Then shall be a cry from the heart of Haiti—a great cry, a crescendo cry. There shall be survivors and they shall have a look and a message. There shall be a Day and the Day shall mother a Howl, and the Howl shall be remembered in Haiti forever and nations beyond the borders shall hear it and stir. Then shall appear a Plume against the sky. It shall be a black plume against the sky which shall give fright to many hopes, watch for these signs. Many false prophets shall arrive who will promise you peace and faith, but they are lacking in device or peace. Wait for the plume in the sky.

Tell My Horse
ZORA NEALE HURSTON