More than $774 Million Raised for Haiti

The US Dollar, Some Haitians Call it 'Caesar'

In my lifetime, although I have given money to family and friends in need, I have never donated any money to any major charity organization until the day that the earthquake hit Haiti.

I've seen advertisements on TV about poor people in Africa and sometimes it used to upset me because there would always a little black kid with no clothes on, skinny as hell, and with flies all around him.

That did not turn on the switch for me to give, instead it made change the channel.

When the earthquake hit, I knew that Haitians would need food, and water, and shelter, and emergency supplies, and very quickly.

I finally heard what a desperate cry for help sounded like and I heard it in my soul, I heard it in own language, I heard it in Haitian Creole, and I couldn't get it out of my mind.

I finally heard what the Chinese hears when it happens in China, I finally heard what the Pilipinos hear when it happens in the Philippines because when CNN was broadcasting a little girl in a hole screaming "O Jezi Gad-on Doulè..."

I head that one loud and clear!

I knew that we didn't have any national organization in Haiti with the logistics to provide this kind of relief in the magnitude and speed that we needed for it to arrive.

I knew that sending money just to my immediate family in need was not enough to satisfy my desire to do something meaningful, I wanted to send money to my country HAITI!

That's what made me decide to donate to the major organizations like the Red Cross, CARE, and UNICEF, and I kept on donating every time every time I watched a Haiti relief effort on TV.

I text YELE, I text the Red Cross, I even donated money while watching the Super Bowl.

You know the funniest thing about all of that?

For once in my life I did not ask myself: "I wonder if they will really give that money to Haiti" because I understood, that day, that they had to, and that there were no other options.

So I kept on giving and it didn't seem to bother me at all, I still want to donate money to Haiti but not to the individual, I want to donate to where it will have the biggest impact.

What happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010, it forced a lot of us non givers to think differently.

You can still donate money, visit the Haiti911 donation page for a list of organizations accepting donations

L'Union Fait La Force...

It's been stamped on our flag all along!

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