Earthquake Update
January 13, 2010 by admin
Our thoughts, our hearts, and our prayers are with our friends and partners in Haiti. The artists, artisans, and galleries we work with are all located in or near Port-au-Prince. We fear that many of them have lost their homes, their livelihoods, and perhaps worse.
We will be organizing relief efforts to help our partners and friends who have been directly and indirectly affected by the earthquake. There are two ways you can help.
Fifty percent of any art purchases you make from us go to the artists and artisans. Or you may send us a check – 100% of these funds will go right into relief efforts.
Please send checks to:
Vassar Haiti Project
124 Raymond Avenue, Box 594
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
Many thanks,
The Vassar Haiti Project
The outpouring of help is humbling. Andrew and I have spent most of the day thinking about Haiti and how we can help.
We have been inundated with ideas from our precious VHP student body…thank you for bringing yourselves forward and stepping up to the plate.
We have lots to do…and we will do it…our team is amazing.
Thank you, for your immense hearts and great minds.
More to come…
Thank you for this information. Will you be sending people down? Supplies are needed. If we donate money, exactly where does that money go and how will it get to the people that need it?
Many thanks in advance,
Eva Woods Peiró
We have to do as much as we can to support Haiti now. Everyone please donate to help. I know that organizations like the Vassar Haiti Project can are very capable of getting funds to the right people for aid.
I donated this morning to Haitaction,
http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/1_12_10.html
which activists on the ground are saying is very good. I’ve also been hearing that MADRE is good:
http://www.madre.org/index.php?s=4&news=263
Eva–good questions. I hope the most recent post detailing our relief efforts will answer your questions. Also, I can’t say enough about Partner’s in Health, an organization that has done amazing medical work in Haiti for the last 20 years, and works towards Haitian self-sufficiency. Their on the ground operations are staffed mainly by Haitians.
http://www.pih.org/home.html
Thanks emstrasser,
I’ve also heard excellent things in the past couple of days about PIH, apparently started by the author of The Uses of Haiti, a must-read. Also a good website, maintained by an independent media journalist based in Port-au-Prince: http://www.mediahacker.org/
We are going to see a lot of misinformation about looting in Haiti right now, especially since so many troops have been sent in.
In solidarity,
Eva
Eve, thanks for your donation references, and for the mediahacker website address. It was nice to go just one site that was not exploiting/dramatizing aspects of the earthquake and relief efforts for their own benefit. I was appalled at how many respected TV journalists ran amok with their characterizations of Haiti.
Glad to see Farmer’s book get a push!
Cheers,
Andrew
Eva, we are an all volunteer organization. Almost all of our money goes to help Haiti in some way, either through funding for education, meals for the children in the school in Chermaitre and medical care for the villagers.
Our earthquake relief monies will go towards supporting artists and artisans who have lost their homes. Monies will also go towards our education initiative which supports the salaries of the school and also helping to educate the local community about Haiti – which includes our upcoming trip to Haiti in March where sixteen VHP committee members are going to visit the school, do medical assessments and evaluate our program and other programs.
thanks for sharing man.