Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Twitter Helping Haiti

Twitter is trying to make it easy for others to help Haiti after a 7.0 Earthquake flattened the country yesterday, possibly killing 500,000 people from a country of nine million.

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/01/healing-haiti.html

"Easy Ways To Help
Many of us are wondering how we can contribute to the healing process. A few simple but effective ways to help have emerged.

  • The American Red Cross allows anyone in the US to text HAITI to 90999 as an easy way to donate $10 to the recovery effort. The money is billed to your mobile phone account.
  • Musician Wyclef Jean's Haiti-focused organization, Yele is also accepting text-message donations. To donate $5, text Yele to 501501 or visit the foundation's web site.
  • Oxfam International has also set up an earthquake response fund. You can visit their web site to make a donation to this fund.

To follow each of these recovery efforts as they progress, we can follow @redcross, @wyclef, and @oxfam.
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