Port au Prince has been destroyed

[heidi]

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?

Comments

[nyoka.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Cut and paste boxes:

[textarea] stuff [/textarea]

Replace the [ ] with pointy brackets.

Thank you for all of the links and info!

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

I can offer a few of my art prints, HP and other prints. Do we have large enough an audience for art print auctions? I would ideally like to get $50+ for each print. Each print usually goes for $100+ at Azkatraz and Portus.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

The New York Times has a a good list of charities that will being on the ground in Haiti.

I'm just horrified by the photos and stories. I have a friend who does medical relief work with Haitian women. She is OK--thank God.

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Many of my coworkers are Haitian and I am worried for them and their families (and friends) back on the isle. :\

I've already contacted my work about getting Darden Dimes started for my coworkers (it's a matching program - they'll match whatever we raise, dollar for dollar. They gave me $500 when my apartment burned down several years ago).

Thank you, again, for getting things moving. There is a HUGE Haitian community here in Boston and I know it will affect every person in it.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! Did you feel the quake?

[rookie131.livejournal.com]

Are you still looking for icons for the community?

I just put up a logo offer. No idea if it will go since that probably isn't what people are going there to look for, but hey, it is worth a shot, right?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

<3

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! You rock!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

You could put in a reserve price?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

No, I was driving. We're 700 miles away and the seabeds are very thick here, so I don't know if we could feel it. But my god, snow *and* earthquakes in the area in the same week? Utterly shocking.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Icons are always good - and you never know what someone will want....

[radiophile.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for starting this. I haven't checked my flist in nearly 24 hours and in that time, it's exploded with posts about Haiti and your comm in particular. You're awesome for doing something so selfless and bringing together so many people for a common cause. *hugs* ♥

[shirebound]

Thank you for organizing help_haiti. It's a truly wonderful idea. We're spreading the word about it all over LJ.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

The impact here in Miami is just staggering. And it's weird, because it's helping our economy to help theirs - provisions, clothing, supplies - even hotel rooms for reporters and aid workers trying to get there. The Herald had something on the website about how this is our chance to pay it forward - we'll have thousands of refugee kids coming here to be with families over the next few months.

But it looks like we are going to pull in five figures just from help_haiti, which is wonderful.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

It's explosive and phenomenal and I am not quite sure yet how to notify all teh winners....

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Love the icon, too.

[radiophile.livejournal.com]

I honestly think that just being a part of help_haiti and helping out in whatever capacity is thanks enough ♥ I truly believe that everyone else feels the way that I do -- that being able to take part in such a huge project is more rewarding in and of itself than anything could be :)

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

It's weird the way it all works out, isn't it?

Five figures... WOW. That's so awesome! I wonder how much stuff we'll end up creating/giving, too. All that art, the words, the food, the videos, and everything else... It's amazing.

I've spoken with my coworkers - some of them have lost brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces, and one lost her parents. One hasn't heard from her family at all. It's worrying. But at the same time, our whole restaurant has rallied around them - and it's one of the reasons I keep going back to work at the OG. "When you're here, you're family" - it's not just our motto, we truly live it.