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Konbit’s Call to volunteers

Monday, December 13th, 2010

We Want You!
Do you want to make a real difference in your community? Hard-working volunteers make great things happen. Community members and Students alike could volunteer at Konbit for Haiti. There are so many ways to get involved you are sure to find a volunteer position that’s right for you, here at Konbit for Haiti.

December 15th, 2010 6PM
Located at 521 NE 81st St
Miami, Florida 33138
(located in the President Shopping Center next to the dollar store)

If you are interested or have any questions, please contact
athena jones via email at athena@konbitforhaiti.org
or by phone 786.358.0565

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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:

medical
water
food
shelter
transportation
communication

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:

Situation Mapping (What is happening on the ground)
Organization Registry (Which agencies are helping & contact details)
Hospital Information (The status of medical facilities in Haiti)
Assistance Requests (View requests & make pledges)

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