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Compassion Without Action is a Waste of Emotion

February 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Immediately following Frank McKinney’s return from his successful search and rescue mission in Haiti, the Caring House Project Foundation has been actively engaged in providing emergency food relief.    CHPF has chartered planes on a now weekly basis to bring emergency food consisting of rice, beans, cooking oil and corn meal along with tents for shelter. Many of you have been so generous in making donations to help make this happen, thank you!

We are currently in the midst of sending over 1/2 million meals (that’s right, 500,000!), along with temporary shelter for 4,000. Please don’t get donor fatigue on us! We need your help!

Please be sure to keep up with our latest Haiti relief efforts  by reading and sharing Frank’s firsthand account: http://www.frank-mckinney.com/blog.asp?article=168 .

To donate please visit:  http://www.frank-mckinney.com/donate.aspx .

See Frank’s personal video message on this most important time, feel “The Tap,” and respond with emergency relief to Haiti.

 
Frank McKinney Events and Appearances
Thursday, February 4, 2010
  (5:30 – 7:30 pm EST)      
Frank keynotes the 2009 – $50,000 Purpose Prize Winner & Lifetime Ashoka Fellow Youth Caregivers w/ Courage Awards at Broken Sound Club (2401 Willow Springs Drive, Boca Raton, FL). Info:  www.aacy.org  .
 
Friday, February 5, 2010 (9:30am EST)    
Frank McKinney LIVE on “Daytime” – WFLA-TV (NBC) discussing 2 of his latest bestsellers, “The Tap” & “Burst This!  Frank McKinney’s Bubble-Proof Real Estate Strategies”  along with latest CHPF Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Info: 561.756.0335. View:  www.daytimeonline.tv  .

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Hotelier Harris Rosen wants to send Houses to Haiti

February 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Orlando Hotelier Harris Rosen stands in front of Little Haiti Houses, a one-room home on display inside the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel off Universal Blvd. in Orlando, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.  

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 Rosen took the lead in collecting funds and donations for the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti and now he wants to jump into the second-phase of relief efforts: Providing housing to the tens of thousands of Haitians who have lost their homes. His plan is to build solar- and wind-powered modular houses in Central Florida to send them to Haiti. Those homes, worth $5,000 each. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel)
 
By Victor Manuel Ramos and Rachael Jackson, Orlando Sentinel – February 3, 2010
In a back hallway at the Rosen Shingle Creek hotel, a little periwinkle house with front porch, window shutters, living room and kitchen awaits a family in Haiti to call it home.

The house — built to resist hurricane-force winds and earthquakes — is a prototype of the “Little Haiti House Project,” brainchild of Orlando hotelier Harris Rosen in what he says is the second and more sustained phase of his relief effort for survivors of last month’s earthquake.

Rosen’s project is one of several ideas from Americans trying to help Haiti figure out how to dig out of the rubble and move forward. Others include fiberglass domes, plastic water containers made into bricks and shipping containers turned into houses.

On Wednesday, Rosen gave an Orlando Sentinel reporter a tour of the prototype of one of his Little Haiti homes.

Rosen, whose seven hotels and resorts employ dozens of workers of Haitian heritage, had already sponsored an initiative to buy and install water-filtration systems for Haiti in 2005. So he was one of the first in Central Florida to respond to the Haiti crisis, donating $250,000 and in addition, matching thousands more in corporate donations toward a $1 million goal. He also partnered with Haitian community leaders and corporations to ship water, soap, blankets and other emergency supplies.

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Haiti’s ‘ghost’ tent villages – is there enough tents in the World?

January 30th, 2010 | No Comments

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC News, Port-au-Prince

It’s midday in Port-au-Prince and the sun is beating down from a cloudless sky.

It’s good news, another day without clouds means another day without rain.  But it won’t last.  Everybody knows the rainy season is now only a few weeks away, and a million people have no proper shelter.

A park on the edge of Port-au-Prince is sprouting what look like giant white field mushrooms.   They are actually large white tents, hundreds of them.  It’s the first proper tent encampment to be built since the earthquake. Along a high concrete wall workers are digging latrines, and building shower blocks.

In a few days from now 3,000 refugees from the centre of Port-au-Prince will start moving in here. But they will be the lucky few. 

Watch the video in this link to see what ShelterBox is doing   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8488728.stm

‘Huge number’

Despite repeated calls from everyone – from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Haitian President Rene Preval – only a few thousand tents have so far arrived in Haiti.

Christopher Gascon
Mr Gascon says there are simply not enough tents

“The priority for flights has been given to bringing in food and medical supplies,” says Christopher Gascon from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

He is in charge of building the mushroom tent camp. He has 40,000 more tents on their way from Panama, but by ship, not by air. And even when those do arrive, they will not be nearly enough.

It seems extraordinary, but so vast are Haiti’s needs that there are simply not enough of the right sort of tents in the world right now to house all the refugees.

“We are talking about a huge number of tents,” says Mr Gascon.  “These sort of tents are not widely available. They will have to be made, ordered from China. If you want 200,000 tents now its not going to happen, they are not there.”

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Food for the Poor

January 29th, 2010 | No Comments

The Executive Director of Food For The Poor, Angel Aloma, returned 36-hours ago from Haiti where his organization is working day and night to help Haiti recover from the earthquake.

I have traveled with Angel in Haiti on prior mission trips there.

 

Donate Here:  Food for the Poor

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The ShelterBox Response Team in Haiti

January 26th, 2010 | No Comments

The ShelterBox Response Team in Haiti has set up emergency shelter for up to 1,000 Haitians at Henfrasa Stadium in Delmas, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


 

Response Team member Lasse Petersen said: ‘We agreed with the local community that the initial tent allocation would be for families with pregnant women and families with newborns.

‘Port au Prince is overflowing with encampments of people sleeping out without basic shelter. The demand remains enormous, but with the help of our donors, ShelterBox has flown 5 aircraft and over 3,000 ShelterBoxes to aid those left homeless by the quake.

‘In the hospitals, orphanages and local communities we are making a difference and thousands of more boxes are en route.’

For more information please visit http://www.shelterbox.org

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World leaders look at long-term help for Haiti

January 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Foreign leaders and organizations joined the United States in pledging to help rebuild Haiti over the next decade, but costs and specific plans remain elusive

BY SCOTT HIAASEN
SHIAASEN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

MONTREAL — The United States and other allies of Haiti agreed Monday to a 10-year effort to rebuild Port-au-Prince and foster the long-term development that has eluded the Caribbean country despite decades of foreign assistance.

The commitment grew from a conference of 19 foreign ministers and international organizations, known informally as the Group of Friends of Haiti, who gathered in Montreal to discuss how to manage what promises to be one of the most daunting reconstruction efforts in modern times.

“It’s not an exaggeration to say that 10 years of hard work — at least — awaits the world in Haiti,” said Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who hosted the meeting.  “We must hold ourselves and each other accountable for the commitments we make.”

The meeting produced few details about the scope of the damage from Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake, or the potential cost of the reconstruction. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced plans to host a more comprehensive conference of donor countries in March at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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TENTS NEEDED IN HAITI

January 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Haiti’s Homeless Are Short Hundreds of Thousands of Tents

By GINGER THOMPSON
Published: January 24, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As officials focused Sunday on the Herculean task of this nation’s physical recovery — clearing the wreckage and setting up housing for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by an earthquake — desperate relatives of those still missing pleaded with the authorities not to give up the search.

With so many of this city’s buildings left in ruins and a public health crisis brewing from a failed sanitation system and a shortage of clean water, search and rescue efforts were winding down.

Across this devastated capital, demolition crews were razing buildings teetering dangerously close to collapse, and teams of American surveyors were expected to begin examining the stability of those structures left intact so that people whose homes were spared can move off the streets and businesses can go back to work.

International aid organizations said they had identified three sites to temporarily resettle the homeless. Brazilian teams have begun clearing a field in the Croix des Bouquets neighborhood for a tent city for some 10,000 people, according to Niurka Piñeiro, a spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration, but it estimates the need at 100,000 tents for families of five, to assist 500,000 people.

Cleck on link to see photos and read the rest of the article, Courtesy of The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/world/americas/25haiti.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 Reporting was contributed by Simon Romero, Deborah Sontag, Damien Cave, Marc Lacey and Ray Rivera.

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Shelter comes in a green tub

January 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Mark Dyer stands in a warehouse at Miami International Airport, surrounded by big plastic containers stacked on wooden pallets, waiting to be loaded for Haiti.

Inside each container, called a ShelterBox, is enough gear to shelter and hydrate 10 disaster victims for six months.

Dyer is a small-business consultant from the Chicago area.   His volunteer job is get 1,500 ShelterBox units from Miami to Haiti.

“We have to help,”he said.   “These people were living their lives, and something happened that they had no control over.”

ShelterBox, an international disaster relief charity, started in 2000 as a Rotary Club project in the United Kingdom.

The actual box is a green weatherproof tub about two feet tall, three feet across and weighs 110 pounds — about the size of a small trunk.

It generally takes about $1,000 to build a ShelterBox, fill it and ship it to a disaster zone.

The contents are customized for each disaster. For Haiti: A 10-person sleeping tent, water purification tablets; insulated sleeping bags, collapsible 2.1-gallon water carriers; collapsible trenching shovel, rope, hatchet, jack-knife, screwdriver, hammer, hoe-head; multi-fuel stove; ponchos, mosquito-resistant nets, eating utensils, cups, plates, even a children’s activity book.

Authorities give priority to the most immediate needs, Dyer said.

Water comes after rescue and medical supplies.

“And because we (have)water purification, that qualifies our boxes to get in.”

Visit info@shelterbox.org
- KENNY MALONE

ShelterBox USA

 

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Water is Life

January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

THE GIFT OF WATER
1.8 Million will die this year of waterborne diseases.
Most of these are children.
Learn how you can help save a Child’s life!

 

Click link for an amazing Video about this water filtration straw from Water is Life.
http://www.news9.com/Global/category.asp?C=116601&clipId=4468721&autostart=true

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