Our Impact

Response to Earthquake in Haiti

haiti reliefWithin 48 hours of the earthquake that shook Haiti, Share Our Strength wired emergency funds to several organizations on the ground to help provide immediate disaster relief. Through initial grants totaling $145,000, we supported the efforts of the following organizations to provide food, temporary shelter, and medical care to the victims:

Although our priority is ending childhood hunger in America by 2015, our international roots run deep. Share Our Strength was founded 25 years ago in response to the famine in Ethiopia. While we have narrowed our focus to ending domestic childhood hunger, we continue to make limited international grants. In fact, Haiti is one of the countries where we've made the largest commitment. For more than 20 years, Share Our Strength has granted more than $3.5 million to support work in Haiti. Much of that support has been directed to the Lambi Fund (LFH), which promotes sustainable development, community micro-credit, and environmental protection in order to effect long-term social change in Haiti.

Our commitment to Haiti will continue as the country rebuilds. While our initial assistance supported emergency responses, we are planning a series of fundraisers to provide additional short- and long-term funding to help rebuild the island nation.

Please check back regularly for updates on our plans to provide ongoing support to Haiti.

Resources on Haiti Earthquake Relief

Partners In Health
How to help: http://standwithhaiti.org/haiti/news-entry/how-you-can-help-volunteer-and-donate-supplies/

World Food Programme
How to help page: http://www.wfp.org/node/19911
News on Haiti: http://www.wfp.org/stories/latest-haiti-operation

MercyCorps
Blog http://www.mercycorps.org/blog

United Nations Foundation
Haiti Response http://www.unfoundation.org/our-impact/health-data-disaster-relief/haiti-earthquake-response.html

USAID
Daily Fact Sheets Re: Haiti: http://www.usaid.gov/helphaiti/

International Rescue Committee,
Voices from the Field: http://blog.theirc.org/2010/01/19/haiti-relief-one-week-on/

List of organizations responding in Haiti (Interaction List) http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti

On the ground reports

The New York Times
http://twitter.com/nytimes/haiti-earthquake

Partners in Health
http://twitter.com/PIH_org

Jim in Haiti
Jim Ansara is chairman of Shawmut Construction, a large firm that builds restaurants and many other types of buildings. Jim went to Haiti immediately after the earthquake to help rebuilding there and has focused mostly on the general hospital in Port au Prince that is affiliated with Partners in Health. Some very compelling blog posts can be found at http://www.jiminhaiti.org.

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