Ten local nursing students helped turn boxes of donated toiletry items into comfort kits on Tuesday at the Comfort Days store in Birmingham, as the campaign came to a close. The comfort kits will be given to families suffering home fires, as well as to military personnel being deployed. “I would say this is [...]
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January 21, 2010 (Updated as of 3 p.m. EST) HAITI RELIEF UPDATES The Southeastern Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross wants to let Southeast Michigan residents know how our organization internationally and locally is responding to the unfortunate situation in Haiti. Here’s the latest: Logistics bottlenecks are hindering the ability of relief operations to [...]
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By STEPHANIE STROM January, 20, 2010-The New York Times Don’t send shoes, send money. Don’t send baby formula, send money. Don’t send old coats, send money. Nonprofit groups rarely look a gift horse in the mouth, and the relief effort in Haiti is desperate for resources. But the experience of wasteful giving in the past, [...]
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WXYZ Channel 7 hosted a Help for Haiti Telethon last night in support of our relief efforts there. The telethon exceeded both the expectations of Channel 7 and our Chapter, raising an impressive $178,227.40 so far. Breaking it down, that’s $71.80 every minute. Though originally scheduled as a three-hour telethon, lines remained open for four [...]
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Channel 7 joined forces with the American Red Cross to bring “Help for Haiti.” Thanks to you we were able to raise more than $178,227.40 so far during the telethon. See Complete Story…
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American Red Cross disaster relief efforts in Haiti received outstanding recognition on Monday during a visit to the Disaster Operations Center (DOC) at Red Cross national headquarters by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. President Obama personally thanked Red Cross employees and volunteers for their part in the work being done to help [...]
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From WXYZ.com (WXYZ) – Channel 7 will unite with the American Red Cross to bring “Help for Haiti.” Haiti today faces a crisis of unprecedented proportion. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake and the devastating aftershocks have forever changed the lives of over 2.5 million Haitians. On Tuesday, January 19, beginning on Channel 7 Action News at [...]
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