After a week of turmoil, Haiti's nightmare was staggering. On recent reports, authorities had estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless people. Six days after the earthquake struck, the unmet needs of thousands is escalating, locals pledged for more money, food, medicine and police asssitance.
Despite news that massive help arrived in Haiti, people continue to receive little or no aid. The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected. Describing the cost of loss is overpowering, damage could run into billions. Every nation must geared up to send aid. This is not a local disaster, it's a world concern. Haiti couldn't do it alone..and they need our help! It's our time to share and GET INVOLVED!
I am posting here ways on how and where you could send help and relief. It's our responsibility to make sure we give our donations to safe institutions. Unscrupulous scammers could use this disaster as an opportunity to take advantage of well-meaning would-be humanitarians.
1. American Red Cross
You also can text "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the International Response Fund. The money will go directly to relief efforts in Haiti.
2. Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
They do respond in building clinics in replacement of destroyed hospitals and other medical facilities.
3. World Food Programme
4. Unicef
5. CIDI - Center for International Disaster Information handling hundreds of thousands of public inquiries related to international emergencies
6. Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
7. Direct Relief International
8. Mercy Corps
9. American Jewish World Service
10. Care
11. Habitat for Humanity
12. International Medical Corps
13. International Relief Teams
14. Medical Teams International
15. The Salvation Army
16. World Concern
17. Yele Haiti
This organization, founded by Wyclef Jean, creates projects to improve the quality of education, health, environment and community development in Haiti. To donate to to its Haiti relief efforts, go to yele.org or text YELE to 501501 to donate $5.
*Check up on charities before sending your money, visit Charity Navigator , Give.org , or GuideStar.org.
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Have you been making resolutions every year? And have you been keeping them devotedly until you've reached your goals? Or maybe you're just like me who have been collecting the same yearly crap of unforgotten promises and washed away affirmations?
Well, let's say this year is different and I am making a vow to keep my resolutions for 2010. This year I am determined to try harder and my goal is to succeed.
My plan is to keep my resolutions simple and short. And instead of making the usual magic 10 commitments, I would be settling for 4 realistic and reachable goals. I am posting it here so I have something to review after the year is over.
1. Sleep early every day (that doesn't mean 12mn, 1am nor 2am)
2. Eat healthy foods (even if I have to force myself to eat more GREENS, and whole wheat nutrition)
3. Avoid procrastination.
4. Blog more.....
Happy New Year to everyone!
*This is the Top 10 New Year Resolutions for 2010
1. Stop smoking
2. Get Fit
3. Lose Weight
4. Enjoy Life More
5. Quit Drinking
6. Get Organised
7. Learn Something New
8. Get Out of Debt
9. Spend more time with the Family
10. Help Others
Please don't hesitate to share your resolutions for the year 2010...sharing is learning!
Whatever happens to the baby inside the woman's womb is beyond imaginable! She seems to be enjoying the thrill of breakdancing though it hurts me so much to look at her in this condition. OUCH!!! Sorry baby!
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From Friendster to Facebook...I find myself moving to a more collaborative and interactive social medium, the Google Wave. After watching their launching video, it seems hard anymore to ignore the overpowering acceleration of the world's digital technology. I may say, we've come a long way and it's time to welcome the FUTURE.
See for yourself what Google Wave could offer.....enjoy viewing the video!
A week after getting hands on with Google Wave, makes you feel so overwhelmed. There's seems to be so much to do and learn about it. The potential for it to develop into a gigantic communication network is huge, if only it could have been more open to the public. Getting an invitation for preview seems impossible and getting your friends and family inside the platform seems like years of waiting.
And although it works well with Firefox and Google Chrome, IE users won't even have the chance to explore in the meantime it's ultimate potentials (count me in). After downloading the Google Chrome Frame (for IE users), I was unable to open my subscriptions for Google Reader. Only after I read in the Google forum that the only solution to enable it again was to remove the Google Chrome Frame, I came to the conclusion that I would have to give up using Google Wave temporarily. If and when will Google Wave developers will create a more stable and feasible program is a just a question of time. My hopes are still on it and I am waiting patiently.
Google Wave Screenshots:
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Complete List of Google Wave Extentions
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