What the Red Cross is doing with your donations
Our IBOs, emploiyees and customers gave more than $280,000 to the American Red Cross through our website after the earthquake in Haiti.
Now that we have a bit of distance from the events, it is helpful to see what our donations were able to accomplish in Haiti. Here’s a recap from the Red Cross:
As part of its largest international response since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the global Red Cross network has helped approximately 2 million Haitians since the country’s January 12 earthquake. In the past four months, the global Red Cross network has collectively:
- Handed out tarps, tents and toolkits for nearly 450,000 people.
- Provided relief items for 500,000 people.
- Distributed 111 million liters of clean drinking water.
- Built more than 1,300 latrines.
- Partnered to vaccinate nearly 800,000 people against deadly diseases, including more than 152,000 vaccinated by the Red Cross.
- Coordinated the shipment of more than 2,100 units of blood to medical facilities.
- Treated more than 100,000 people at Red Cross hospitals or mobile clinics.
- Registered more than 28,400 people with missing loved ones on its family linking Web site.
- Deployed more than 900 responders to Haiti, including 165 representing the American Red Cross.
The director of our local chapter sent me a link to this video that talks about what the Red Cross is doing to prepare the Hatian people for the upcoming hurricane season: