A Grassroots Earthquake Relief Effort: Haiti

This rare double post is to inform you that, in light of the massive earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, my husband and I have decided to make a donation to our favorite humanitarian aid organization, LDS Humanitarian Services--and you get to determine how much we donate.

Just leave a comment in the section below sometime between now and nine o'clock Friday night. (I've got kids; I go to bed early.) For every unique comment (one per person) made on this post, my husband and I will donate one dollar to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti. Our donation will help provide personal hygiene and newborn care kits for earthquake victims, as well as food, water, medicine, and other needed supplies.

LDS Humanitarian Services, a branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a well-respected aid organization and provides emergency and other relief around the world. They bring clean water to small towns and villages in developing countries, provide neonatal resuscitation training to doctors and nurses in these same nations, and supply food and vaccinations to those in need. They also provide vital disaster relief and have made an impact in such places as Indonesia, India and Pakistan, the Sudan, the Gulf Coast, and now Haiti.

If you’d like to make a donation yourself, check out their online contribution form. And don’t forget to leave your comment here.