BloggersUnite for Haiti

Objective:

Goal is to share information about this disaster and how people around the world can provide aid to ongoing relief efforts.

Nations and aid organizations around the globe are scrambling to provide aid to Haiti in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. While the listed date of this event to be 1/19/10, we ask that bloggers begin to submit relevant posts as soon as possible and continue to do so as long as more information becomes available and more aid for the citizens of Haiti is needed.

We welcome any posts about current conditions in Haiti as well as how to donate money, supplies or man power to the ongoing disaster relief efforts. If you have any information to share about this tragic event with readers around the world, please post a link to your article here.

We here at BloggersUnite send our thoughts and prayers out to those affected by this disaster.

Organizations Helping With Haiti Relief

American Red Cross                   

Doctors Without Borders

AmeriCares Disaster Relief

International Medical Corps

Mercy Corps

Catholic Relief Services

World Vision International

UNICEF

Oxfam

Save the Children

Yele Haiti

Partners in Health

The International Rescue Committee

Samaritan's Purse

Friends of WFP

Feed My Starving Children      Get links to all of these organizations here:

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More than 100,000 dead in Haiti quake, officials say

MANILA, Philippines (3rd UPDATE) - At least 25 members of the Philippine peacekeeping contingent in Haiti are feared trapped inside the collapsed United Nations Stabilization Mission building after a magnitude 7.0 quake rocked the Caribbean nation Tuesday (Wedensday in Manila), a Philippine official reported Wednesday.

Philippine military spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner told ANC's Dateline Philippines that Lt. Col. Lope Dagoy, commander of the Philippine peacekeeping forces in Haiti, has reported through his wife that some Filipino soldiers were trapped inside the building that collapsed right after the country was struck by the earthquake.

Elmer Cato, press officer of the Philippine mission to the United Nations, also said earlier Filipino peacekeepers were trapped at the collapsed United Nations Stabilization Mission building.

He said the Philippine peacekeeping force is composed of 157 officers and enlisted personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and 22 personnel from the Philippine National Police (PNP).

In a phone interview with ABS-CBN News, Lt. Col. Limar Galicia, deputy commander of the

peacekeeping operations center in Camp O'Donnell in Capas, Tarlac, said he was informed by the New York Permanent Mission via email that at least 23 Filipino peacekeepers may have been trapped inside the

 headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti.source:abs-cbnnews.com   

 

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