Earthquake Updates and Donate to YELE by Wyclef

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Wyclef Jean is asking people to text the word "Yele" to the number 501501, which will charge the user $5 and donate the funds to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Brazilian medical pediatrician Zilda Arns Neumann, the founder and national coordinator of the Pastoral Children's and elderly care of the Bishops of Brazil, died during the earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday, according to the Brazilian government.

Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, mourned the victims of Haiti's earthquake, calling it a "tragedy that defies expression.Hey Titide send half of the money you stole from TELECO to say the least to help the Haitian people if you really care. Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, was found dead among the ruins of the archdiocese's office in the Haitian capital.

Miot was 63.
Preval is STILL alive.

He was at the airport giving interviews to CNN and The Miami Herald.

He stated that (one) of his homes had collapsed so as the national palace and the parliament building where Senate President Kelly Bastien remained trapped and has stopped responding to the rescuers' cries.

{Let us see if Preval is willing to redraw a few millions from his personal foreign bank accounts to help the desperate people of Haiti.This will be a test of his true character,} but unfortunately I think we all know about his true 'character.' Therefore we should expect nothing but 'lip service' from Preval.

He can at least start begging the international community for money, since this is what he knows how to do best. Use your talent Preval! From Geology: Port-au-Prince is sitting on an active fault zone and there have been published warnings according to natural hazards specialist John Clague, at Simon Fraser University.

The quake likely moved the earth between half a metre and a metre along a 20-to-30 kilometre stretch of the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault system that cuts through Haiti.

Five scientists presented a paper during the 18th Caribbean Geological Conference in March 2008 in the Dominican Republic, stating that a fault zone on the south side of the island posed "a major seismic hazard." We were concerned about it," said one of the paper's authors, Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas ' Institute for Geophysics.

Jhon Clague stated that the impoverished country was in no position to retrofit its buildings, which collapsed into rubble Tuesday January 12, 2010. The Preval's administration should have notified the people of Haiti about this possible danger.

The people had a right to know. Digicel Group, a top mobile phone operator in Haiti, said it would donate $5 million in cash toward relief efforts and appealed to others to help victims of the quake.Lowe's Cos Inc (LOW.N) is donating $1 million to the Red Cross' efforts in Haiti.

Rival Home Depot (HD.N), the largest home improvement chain, said it will give $100,000 to the American Red Cross.

National Bank of Canada (NA.TO), which will contribute up to C$250,000 to the Canadian Red Cross, said National Bank MasterCard cardholders can exchange reward points for a cash donation to the Canadian Red Cross.

Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO) said it would accept donations to the Canadian Red Cross in its bank branches, and would make a C$250,000 corporate contribution.

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has committed $1 million in aid, with half going to the American Red Cross for its Haitian Relief and Development Fund, while cereal maker Kellogg Co(K.N) has pledged $250,000 to the American Red Cross relief effort.

Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) said it will donate $1 million in humanitarian aid, including medicines and nutritional products.

Internet services company Go Daddy said it would give $500,000 to aid quake victims.

Wells Fargo (WFC.N) will contribute $100,000 to the American Red Cross' disaster relief fund, while BMO Financial Group (BMO.TO) pledged $250,000 to the Red Cross effort in Haiti.

FedEx Corp (FDX.N) said it is working with international relief groups including the Red Cross to fly supplies to the island once shipments start moving, while United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N), which participates in a World Food Program that helps coordinate delivery of aid to disaster zones, said it expects to have its volunteers in the program called up soon. The above companies are friends of Haiti people.

Please continue to do business with them. The death toll in Haiti is estimated in the 100,000 thousands.

Philippe, January 13 2010, 8:37 PM

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