Support - Team Rubicon in Haiti - A MUST READ!

Team Rubicon is a self-financed and self-deployed group of former Marines, soldiers and health care professionals currently providing emergency relief in Haiti.


I know that there seem to be a hundred groups out there appealing for our support so that they can deliver relief and aid in Haiti. This group though seems like a worthy cause, that is deserved of a blog post. I originally saw it on Father Z's  blog and just HAD to post about it.

Check out there blog and think about donating to them. As they are self-financed anything we give helps, that means $1.00... you can spare at least that right? (They are also thanking every single person that gives)

-Posted by: Joe

Real Life and Death

Real life and death, just a mouse-click away.

Go ahead, click: Haiti: 500 Patients Treated in 24 Hours at Carrefour Hospital. This is something you and your students need to see. Need to talk about.

And Doctors Without Borders is just one of many organizations trying to help down in Haiti. They are among the millions of folks on the ground dealing with these real life and death issues.

Here's two things you all (we) can do to help no matter where you all (we) are in the world: 1) Give a few bucks to MSF or your favorite charity working to get water and meds into Haiti. 2) Share the story and conversation of what's going on in that country with your kids.

Talk to your students about it.

In History class. In Math class.

Just talk.

With them. Together.

And be thankful that you can.

A Teacher's Pictures of Haiti Before the Quake

Check out Pete's pictures.

Donated... but want another way to help Haiti?

I know that many of you have given and thank you.

If you have (or haven't) and want another way to help, but also help your soul at the same time - then I have the thing for you.

Aquinasandmore.com is donating 5% of all their purchases this weekend to CRS.org. So you can help Haiti and your soul at the same time. Just click below and shop away... and don't forget to pray.

Donating to Haiti.... some thoughts

If you haven't donated:
CRS.org


((UPDATE:))
So I decided that I wasn't going to delete my post, but based on a comment below, I decided to rethink the situation. We as Catholics do have a lot to offer beyond just money. We have prayers, novenas, rosaries, etc...

Donations though... they do need to keep coming. We as Catholics shouldn't assume or presume motivations. At this point Haiti needs all the support that we can give. So the commentator below was correct when he said that we need to give what we can, in any way that we can, and not detract from people trying to do the same. So let's all encourage one another, help when we can and how we can and continue to pray.

I apologize for making the post I did before, and I pray that we all can be charitable with our giving as well as with our hearts. So use me as a lesson as what NOT to do. And again... don't for get to pray.

And if you haven't... I am curious, will the likes of George Clooney and Wyclef Jean inspire you to do so? I am not suggesting that their support for this is bad in any way. I just wonder why people haven't donated yet...if they intend to.


Again, Jean is from Haiti, he is apparently on the ground and helping out, but is a telethon really going to get people to donate? The answer is yes, but why? Are there thousands of people sitting around going, "Nah, I just can't afford it. Oh wait, George Clooney says that I should? Oh, OK." Again, I am not saying that Mr. Clooney and the rest shouldn't be out there using their fame to garner donations, they should. I just don't understand that mentality of the people that wait for this sort of thing in order to give.


I guess it is the large scale production aspect of it that doesn't sit well with me: Help for Haiti
I am just a little torn on this. Half of me says, "Whatever it takes." The other half of me says, "Do people need a concert in order to give?"

As a side note, the "text donations" are a cool thing. I wish that some of the better organizations would have signed on to it, instead of Red Cross, but it is still cool. Anyone with any connections to any of the cellular carriers or with CRS.org should convince someone to get that going on the CRS.org front. (SEE BELOW!)

((UPDATE)):*************************************************
So... you CAN donate with your cellular bill and CRS.org. It isn't through texting, but it is the same concept. If you go to CRS.org and look at the right side-bar there is a place to enter your cell number. You will then receive a text message on how to give... OR:

TEXT: "RELIEF" to 30644 - This will connect you to someone that will allow you to give with your credit card. It isn't as "easy" as the other groups... but there are reports coming out that the "text" gifts may be delayed up to 90 days because of the problems and processing issues that the carriers are facing.