Haiti

Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.

That's what the president of Haiti said this morning. Among those trapped inside the Parliament building but still alive was the president of the Haitian Senate, Kely Bastien.

There's a page up on DailyKos this morning with ways to help the relief effort in Haiti.

Fandom always does amazing things when help is needed, and it obviously is now. Is anyone interested in creating for and/or bidding on fan/original creations/foods/jewelry/art where the money goes to one of a few aid groups, such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, OXFAM, Wyclef Jean's or Jimmy Jean-Louis's (the Haitian from Heroes) organizations.

I'm happy to help organize a comm and manage things (although I will be very AFK on Saturday) if others are interested. Feel free to direct people to this post if you think they're interested in helping.

And of course, please text/repost/RT this: Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief efforts in #Haiti Learn more: http://bit.ly/6KiRtE

ETA I've set up help_haiti - for now, I'm just putting up some info about ways to donate now, and a poll about auction time-frame and donation methods.

Haiti

Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.

That's what the president of Haiti said this morning. Among those trapped inside the Parliament building but still alive was the president of the Haitian Senate, Kely Bastien.

There's a page up on DailyKos this morning with ways to help the relief effort in Haiti.

Fandom always does amazing things when help is needed, and it obviously is now. Is anyone interested in creating for and/or bidding on fan/original creations/foods/jewelry/art where the money goes to one of a few aid groups, such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, OXFAM, Wyclef Jean's or Jimmy Jean-Louis's (the Haitian from Heroes) organizations.

I'm happy to help organize a comm and manage things (although I will be very AFK on Saturday) if others are interested. Feel free to direct people to this post if you think they're interested in helping.

And of course, please text/repost/RT this: Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief efforts in #Haiti Learn more: http://bit.ly/6KiRtE

ETA I've set up help_haiti - for now, I'm just putting up some info about ways to donate now, and a poll about auction time-frame and donation methods.

Port au Prince has been destroyed

help_haiti

All three Doctors Without Borders locations. The air traffic control system. United Nations buildings. Homes. The presidential palace and government buildings and schools; the closest you can come to saying anything was lucky is that the quake happened when it did and not three hours earlier when schools and government offices would have been full.

They believe that hundreds of thousands may have been killed, but the final death toll may never be known.

FiveThirtyEight has a terrific piece about the history of Haiti - why it's been so damaged by political *and* environmental catastrophies over the last 100+ years.

I live only 700 miles from Haiti, and people across Miami today are waiting to hear from friends and relatives; our local disaster teams are heading down there throughout the day, but the infrastructure of the country has been wracked by the earthquake so terribly that it's unclear if help will be able to get to those who need it to save their lives.

It will take years to rebuild the country - as Anderson is reporting on CNN right now, there is a huge need for anything and everything.

I put together some links to organizations and charities soliciting donations on help_haiti, which I set up this morning as a locus for an auction of creative works (fan and original) - offering posts should be up this afternoon and bidding can start immediately - but keep checking back as offers will be added into early next week!

help_haiti. Please.

Port au Prince has been destroyed

help_haiti

All three Doctors Without Borders locations. The air traffic control system. United Nations buildings. Homes. The presidential palace and government buildings and schools; the closest you can come to saying anything was lucky is that the quake happened when it did and not three hours earlier when schools and government offices would have been full.

They believe that hundreds of thousands may have been killed, but the final death toll may never be known.

FiveThirtyEight has a terrific piece about the history of Haiti - why it's been so damaged by political *and* environmental catastrophies over the last 100+ years.

I live only 700 miles from Haiti, and people across Miami today are waiting to hear from friends and relatives; our local disaster teams are heading down there throughout the day, but the infrastructure of the country has been wracked by the earthquake so terribly that it's unclear if help will be able to get to those who need it to save their lives.

It will take years to rebuild the country - as Anderson is reporting on CNN right now, there is a huge need for anything and everything.

I put together some links to organizations and charities soliciting donations on help_haiti, which I set up this morning as a locus for an auction of creative works (fan and original) - offering posts should be up this afternoon and bidding can start immediately - but keep checking back as offers will be added into early next week!

help_haiti. Please.

Also, I know I knew how to do this at some point but can someone please tell me how to do those boxes with the scroll bar on the right, where someone can cut & paste the content inside into a comment, so we can have a template for Offerings?

Port au Prince has been destroyed

help_haiti

All three Doctors Without Borders locations. The air traffic control system. United Nations buildings. Homes. The presidential palace and government buildings and schools; the closest you can come to saying anything was lucky is that the quake happened when it did and not three hours earlier when schools and government offices would have been full.

They believe that hundreds of thousands may have been killed, but the final death toll may never be known.

FiveThirtyEight has a terrific piece about the history of Haiti - why it's been so damaged by political *and* environmental catastrophies over the last 100+ years.

I live only 700 miles from Haiti, and people across Miami today are waiting to hear from friends and relatives; our local disaster teams are heading down there throughout the day, but the infrastructure of the country has been wracked by the earthquake so terribly that it's unclear if help will be able to get to those who need it to save their lives.

It will take years to rebuild the country - as Anderson is reporting on CNN right now, there is a huge need for anything and everything.

I put together some links to organizations and charities soliciting donations on help_haiti, which I set up this morning as a locus for an auction of creative works (fan and original) - offering posts should be up this afternoon and bidding can start immediately - but keep checking back as offers will be added into early next week!

help_haiti. Please.

Also, I know I knew how to do this at some point but can someone please tell me how to do those boxes with the scroll bar on the right, where someone can cut & paste the content inside into a comment, so we can have a template for Offerings?

Crossposted from Help_Haiti

Thanks SO much to everyone who's posted an offer, pimped the comm, bid on something, created icons (see them below!) and contributed to this fundraising effort. We have over a hundred items on offer already, and as per the poll from this morning, we'll allow people to add things until the morning of January 20 (Eastern Standard Time).

Posts are staying relatively well organized; I'm checking them every few hours, but if anything gets very out of control, please email me so I see it relatively quickly. If the posts start to get out of control, we might need to do index posts, but if they stay as they are we should be ok.

Please visit the post here to see the current list of charities that auction winners can donate to. I was thinking that a confirmation-of-donation process next week that involves screencaps of redacted donation confirmations, combined with scanned/photographed receipts if anyone donates via cash in person, might work, but suggestions for how other fandom-run fundraisers have done it before would be much appreciated. And if you have other organizations to add to the list, or issues with any of those listed, please comment!

( Grab an icon behind the cut )

The Offering Threads
Art
Graphics
Audio
Food
Fics/Stories/Books
Something Interesting (Misc.)
Lightning Round for instant donate-and-claim fics/drawbles

Crossposted from Help_Haiti

Thanks SO much to everyone who's posted an offer, pimped help_haiti, bid on something, created icons (see them below!) and contributed to this fundraising effort. We have over a hundred items on offer already, and as per the poll from this morning, we'll allow people to add things until the morning of January 20 (Eastern Standard Time).

Posts are staying relatively well organized; I'm checking them every few hours, but if anything gets very out of control, please email me so I see it relatively quickly. If the posts start to get out of control, we might need to do index posts, but if they stay as they are we should be ok.

Please visit the post here to see the current list of charities that auction winners can donate to. I was thinking that a confirmation-of-donation process next week that involves screencaps of redacted donation confirmations, combined with scanned/photographed receipts if anyone donates via cash in person, might work, but suggestions for how other fandom-run fundraisers have done it before would be much appreciated. And if you have other organizations to add to the list, or issues with any of those listed, please comment!

( Grab an icon behind the cut )

The Offering Threads
Art
Graphics
Audio
Food
Fics/Stories/Books
Something Interesting (Misc.)
Lightning Round for instant donate-and-claim fics/drawbles

Crossposted from Help_Haiti

Thanks SO much to everyone who's posted an offer, pimped help_haiti, bid on something, created icons (see them below!) and contributed to this fundraising effort. We have over a hundred items on offer already, and as per the poll from this morning, we'll allow people to add things until the morning of January 20 (Eastern Standard Time).

Posts are staying relatively well organized; I'm checking them every few hours, but if anything gets very out of control, please email me so I see it relatively quickly. If the posts start to get out of control, we might need to do index posts, but if they stay as they are we should be ok.

Please visit the post here to see the current list of charities that auction winners can donate to. I was thinking that a confirmation-of-donation process next week that involves screencaps of redacted donation confirmations, combined with scanned/photographed receipts if anyone donates via cash in person, might work, but suggestions for how other fandom-run fundraisers have done it before would be much appreciated. And if you have other organizations to add to the list, or issues with any of those listed, please comment!

( Grab an icon behind the cut )

The Offering Threads
Art
Graphics
Audio
Food
Fics/Stories/Books
Something Interesting (Misc.)
Lightning Round for instant donate-and-claim fics/drawbles

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