Haiti: WTF?

this is just really hitting me hard for some reason.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:42 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah ditto
--everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx)

Same here

I'd like to see that chart broken down by per-capita donations, it's no shock that the states with the largest populations have contributed the most.

yeah i was curious cause i always heard that boston is like the 3rd-largest haitian population center or something so i was wondering how we were doing.

kinda depends on what names the state dept draws out of a hat, right? i thought that's how it worked. maybe cities with a lot of haitians will get more, but MN does have a good track record.

just off the top of the dome, a lot of MN's refugee populations are those where there was no prior community before, right? but i rly don't know what i'm talkin about

― chartres (goole), Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:10 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i used to think it was random, but no: MN has the first or second largest per capita refugee population almost entirely because of charitable (mostly lutheran) organizations that arrange jobs/housing/etc for disastered populations. which is also why i'd like to see a per capita giving for that graph. Cali's population is seven times that of MN, but they're giving 11x more. Then again, I'm guessing that there's a much higher percentage of honkingly large personal or institutional donations coming from CA than there are from MN, which I bet is fielding mostly small personal donations

just wanted to rep for DWB:

http://doctorswithoutborders.org/

honestly this is when i want the full fucking weight of the us military brought to bear---aid cannot get into the country rapidly without functional airstrips, and everything i'm hearing is that there just aren't enough. let's go SeaBees, do yr thing

I think I am gonna sell some shit and then send the $$$ to Partners in health.

raised $350 in donations from classmates this morning, iirc

wtg man!!!

gonna be matched by an ~anonymous donor~ as well

granted, all i did was go up w/beth and say: there are donation cups by the door. also, at least three students (one of which was beth) did most of the heavy lifting, but still.

still wanna organize SOMEthing in the next couple of weeks, but school is busy ;_;

this is not charitable dick-waving, btw, just saying that it's possible to get cash from ppl pretty quickly and easily!

Finally you acknowledge that by stating your charitable deeds on earth you lose your rewards in the afterlife. (<---big concern for me at age five)

it's definitely not dick-waving! i don't think anyone here would take it as such.

Finally you acknowledge that by stating your charitable deeds on earth you lose your rewards in the afterlife. (<---big concern for me at age five)

― sedentary lacrimation (Abbott), Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u____u

tbh I don't actually believe that

and you're an awesome dude

one of the awesomest

just wanted to rep for DWB:

Unnecessary levity: I first read this as "just wanted to rep for DMB" and I was like WTF?

I emailed our HR rep to find out if they'd do donation matching like we did for Tsunami...and if not, asked her to at least spread the word about texting $10 donations to Redcross. The more people the better!

My company increased their matching from 50% to 100% for Haiti donations. Woohoo!

TiGeorges Chicken (brilliantly great Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles) is having a fund raiser tonight.

So my wife put a link on Facebook to donate and within 5 minutes two people commented variations on "Why the hell should I bother? I believe the 100 million Obama sent is more than enough since I'm already paying for that!". And this is from Obama supporters. I'm shocked at the level of "oh lol another poor people earthquake *shrug*" going around.

ugh

i mean fine don't do anything whatever but getting haughty about someone suggesting that more aid would be helpful is just o_O

Those are some seriously inhumane people.

Obama's aid package is the equivalent of 35 cents per American or $1 per taxpayer. Those people are cheapskates who can't do math.

^^^^^^

And also don't understand how much it would cost to rebuild basically an entire city. How much will repairing or rebuilding the cathedral and the palace alone cost? Several tens of millions of dollars, at least?

yeah maybe do those last, huh

And also don't understand how much it would cost to rebuild basically an entire city. How much will repairing or rebuilding the cathedral and the palace alone cost? Several tens of millions of dollars, at least?

― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:47 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Prob; esp if they don't want it to fall down again :\

oh geez so I just found out my classmate's boyfriend is IN Haiti right now. was supposed to fly out on Tues I think. he's alive but obv stranded. she has remained remarkably composed. man what a thing

also apparently the afternoon lectures pulled another 260??!?!

ok so total is 850 before matching dang

Awesome!

v plzd tbh

good going from you and your classmates!

i just gave a tenner to the red cross which, although it's not much, is fairly significant from me since i never give to charity because i am a disgusting savage.

you are not a disgusting savage as
disgusting savages do not routinely cure four children of malaria, which is what you just did basically

sorry ;_;

So my wife put a link on Facebook to donate and within 5 minutes two people commented variations on "Why the hell should I bother?

man. just checked my facebook and it's kind of like.. i guess i'm posting this here because i don't want to get into it with people i know, especially in a public forum, but it seems to me that now is not the time to complain at length about how you don't like something someone said on television, or how you don't like that bush 43 was asked by clinton to team up in support of disaster relief. really? i mean, let it go.

haters gonna hate

do yr part and fuk em if they disagree

(ie I am trying to ignore the fact that these ppl exist and focus my energy on more productive shit)

good call. great job on all you've raised so far!

ok so I may have a general announcement to make soon (when I get home and am not on iPhone) that involves ilxors, PIH, and gift matching.

UKer's might like to know about http://www.dec.org.uk/ - a kind of umbrella donation site for various agencies.

Front page coverage of Haiti from today's Daily Mail:

http://www.twitpic.com/y5zng

Their readers just aren't that interested.

I am terribly sorry for these poor people, but you say Brown has pledged £10 million ? Where is this money coming from? I thought this country was broke? Didnt Brown only pledge £1 million for Cockermouth? I know the devastation wasnt quite so horrific there but our own people need the money to rebuild their lives. Give human support by all means but stop giving money away that we dont have!!!!!

- Helen, Plymouth, England

For non-UK readers you should now that Cockermouth was an horrific tragedy in which several people had their holiday homes flooded and one or two people even lost their land rovers. Also the corner shop was right out of bread for a whole weekend.

holy shit

:O i had not heard that about cockermouth, is there a site set up or anything where i can give?

Yes. And they'll throw in a wonder sticker for your car.

Window sticker...

Wonder sticker was more appropriate. What's the difference between Gift Aid and not Gift Aid?

aw i kinda wanted a wonder sticker.

oh wait it's TAX. BASTARDS. I HATE TAX lol

holy crap

have collected close to 1500 to be matched

0_O