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Google Crisis Response to Help the Victims of the Haiti Earthquake

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Once again, the Internet community are exerting every efforts that they can to help alleviate the impact of the recent earthquake that devastated the small country of Haiti. I’ve seen what online technology can do to mobilize the people in helping out calamity victims having recently survived the great flood that hit Manila last year.

And just like during that flood that struck Manila, Google is once again mobilizing all its web resources to help in the disaster relief effort in Haiti. Google has established the Google Crisis Response to Support the Disaster Relief in Haiti. On the site you’ll find useful information on how you can donate to International Organizations who are helping out the disaster relief effort in Haiti.

You can use the Google Checkout faciilty to course your donation for Haiti to either CARE or Unicef, or choose from any of the following sites to channel your donations.

You can also send your donations via SMS: (for US only):

  • SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts
  • SMS text “YELE” to 501501 to Donate $5 to Yele Haiti’s Earthquake Relief efforts

And for information and real-time updates on what’s happening right now in Haiti, you can check out the following useful sites:

And if you want to get a glimpse of the how it looks right now in Haiti, Google has put up a satellite imagery of the country using Google Earth layers.

 

Originally posted on January 14, 2010 @ 4:50 pm