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Resources for Haiti Logistics

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Our most pressing issue is ensuring that life-sustaining resources are reaching the people of Haiti.

We are in the process of developing systems to assess and geographically pinpoint the status of:

We are also focused on methods of tracking requests and donations of in-kind resources.

The following websites provide the best databases of information we have been able to gather:

1. Aid Matrix – A USAID project and has been used for other disasters.  Medshare International is posting here.
Usability – Good for in-kind donation requests.  Difficult to search except by type of donation requested.  Cannot find a list of all organizations.
http://www.aidmatrix.org/haiti.htm

2. Ushahidi – Ability to send SOS messages via Text message and it will appear on the map, allowing relief workers to respond.
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/main

3. Sahana Foundation – Has the ability to funnel data that appears on Twitter.  Portal includes:

Usability – Difficult to use and many blank sections make this a little frustrating to use.
http://haiti-orgs.sahanafoundation.org/prod/default/index

4. Tweak the Tweet- A project for helping parse Twitter messages (“Tweets”) into components like: need, location, injured, trapped.
Usability – Better to access through Sahana than through the project website.
http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/helping_haiti_tweak_the_twe.html

5. We Have We Need – Relief workers can post requests for donations or donors can post in-kind donations by category:

Usability: Very easy to use, but not many organizations are using it.
http://www.wehaveweneed.org/

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Nurses Depart for Haiti

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Early this morning, two nurses departed Miami on their way to Haiti. They will be working at the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince.

headed to Haiti: 2 more nurses departed this morning to work at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince

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Monuments detruits de PaP

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Download: BULLETINDELISPAN_No_9_-2- [PDF, 1.22 MB]

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Open Invitation

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Please join us!

Make sure your organization is added to our directory of South Florida organizations working on short term and long term recovery for Haiti and the diaspora community.
Add your organization: http://tinyurl.com/konbitforhaiti

Who We Are
In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, a strategic partnership developed between leaders of South Florida’s Haitian community, prominent businesspeople, elected officials, labor and relief organizations with the shared vision of combining forces to provide immediate relief to our suffering neighbors, capacity building for the rapidly growing South Florida Haitian community, and the groundwork for ongoing collaboration in the reconstruction of a sustainable Haiti.
Thus Konbit for Haiti was birthed.  ”Konbit” is a word in Haitian Kreyol for gathering, collaborating, and cooperating — a concept at the heart our mission.
Add your organization: http://tinyurl.com/konbitforhaiti

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