Artist starts relief fund to provide food, water and other essentials
following storms. September 11, 2008
[image: Wyclef Jean]
*Wyclef Jean has launched the "Haiti Storm Relief Fund" to provide
food, water, purification tablets, tents, blankets, medical supplies,
hygiene kits as well as funds to a number of non-profit organizations
working on the ground to respond to the emergency.
"My country is facing a serious catastrophe at the moment," said
Wyclef in a statement, "and we urgently require assistance. But the
long-term catastrophe is that we have less than two percent tree cover, and
without restoring our forests we will always be susceptible to mudslides and
flash floods from storms and hurricanes."
Yele's Storm Relief Fund has already sponsored food, supplies and
water to assist victims in the South-East, including Jakmel, Cayes-Jakmel,
Marigot and La Vallee. A second wave of support is currently underway in and
around Jakmel in cooperation with the Mayor of the resort community.
Containers with emergency supplies are being shipped into the country
over the next few weeks as individuals and corporations begin responding to
Wyclef Jean's call for donations. Within days Yele Haiti's teams will begin
an intensive operation of emergency food distributions with food staples
supplied by the World Food Programme. Donations can be made online at
www.yele.org.
The storms that have battered Haiti in the past few weeks have left
more than 500 dead and wreaked havoc in the lives of more than 600,000
people who have been displaced by flooding or cut off from food supplies.
Haitian President Rene Preval has appealed for help from the international
community, saying the country faces a "catastrophe".
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over
their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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