Via: NewsOne.com // While Drew Brees is getting a lot of attention after winning the Super Bowl and has done the traditional Disney World commercial, New Orleans Saints defensive captain, Jonathan Vilma, has other plans. Vilma told reporters that he would go to Haiti after the Super Bowl to help out in earthquake relief. Here’s […]
Via: NewsOne.com // Jeff Paul, a Haitian student and president of the Haitian American Student Association at Medgar Evers College. NEW YORK – Every payday, Jeff Paul sent whatever dollars he could spare to his mother and little brother back home in Haiti. They’ve become even more desperate since the Jan. 12 earthquake, compounded by thieves, […]
Via: NewsOne.com // From CNN: Los Angeles, California — Dozens of recording stars converged on a Hollywood studio on Monday evening to add their voices to a song they hope will raise millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief. The lyrics and music are an updated version of “We Are the World,” a song that […]
Via: NewsOne.com While the news coming out of Haiti since last week’s tragic earthquake has largely been devastating and hope-shattering, the stories of survivors being found and rescued after days of being trapped under rubble give other Haitians hope of finding their own loved ones. The eyes of the world have been on Haiti since […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse. “Why give thanks to God? Because we are here,” said the Rev. Eric Toussaint. […]
Via: NewsOne.com // PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – With food, water and other aid flowing intoHaiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital. Haiti’s government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those recovered by independent […]
Via: NewsOne.com // U.S. cell phone users have contributed more than $5 million in $10 increments to the Red Cross for Haiti disaster relief, by far the largest outpouring of support via mobile devices in history. The response to the devastating earthquake produced the highest amount of mobile donations “that we have ever seen,” said […]
