Give now and give generously to life-saving aid for Haiti.

When mailing a cheque to any of the qualifying organizations below, write “Haiti earthquake” and provide your mailing address to receive a tax receipt, where applicable.
For a review of many of the U.S. and international charities operating in Haiti, see the comprehensive report of Give Well. Find it here: http://www.givewell.org/. You can also look at the Disaster Accountability Project, here: http://www.daptest.org/. This information is not as current.
November 27, 2011

Zanmi Lasante/ Partners in Health

Zanmi Lasante is the Haitian partner organizations of the renowned Partners In Health global medical agency. Zanmi's founding hospital is located in the Central Plateau of Haiti and has delivered health care since the 1980's through a network of clinics in that region of the country. It trains Haitians as doctors and health professionals and serves some one million people in the Central Plateau.

Zanmi Lasante is building a new teaching hospital in Mireblais, to open in 2012, located just north of Port au Prince. It is managing clinics in three, large internally-displaced persons camps in Port au Prince. Partners In Health is a co-signer to a March, 2010 statement calling for maximum respect for the human rights of Haitian people in the relief and reconstruction effort (see here).

To learn more about Partners In Health and donate, go to this weblink. Donations in the U.S. are tax deductible. The U.S. mailing address for donations is:
Partners In Health
P.O. Box 845578
Boston, MA  02284-5578

Partners In Health Canada has been launched in Canada as of November, 2011. To read about this, go to this weblink here on the CHAN website. The mailing address for tax deductible donations in Canada is:
PIH Canada
526 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 1V2

The new website is: http://www.pih.org/canada.
 

Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins sans frontières

Doctors Without Borders operates clinics in Port au Prince and surrounding neighbourhoods. It has expertise in disaster relief. Its website contains small amounts of information on its work in Haiti, here.  Donations in Canada and the U.S. are tax deductible. To donate online: http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/donations/. 
By mail in Canada: Doctors Without Borders; 402 – 720 Spadina Avenue; Toronto, ON M5S 2T9

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

The US-based IJDH is a vital organization in post-earthquake Haiti. It is a strong voice for respect for the human and social rights of Haitians as the world considers what reconstruction will take place in Haiti, and whose interests it will serve. It provides resources and works closely with Haiti's leading human rights office, the Bureau des avocats internationaux. It is helpign to spearhead the cause of justice for the victims of the tyrannical regime of Jean Claude Duvalier. To donate and to learn more: http://www.ijdh.org. 

By mail: IJDH, 666 Dorch­ester Avenue, South Boston, MA  02127. Phone 617 652 0876.

Cuban Medical Brigades

You can read a comprehensive account of the history of Cuba's medical assistance to Haiti following the earthquake, and gonig all the way back to 1998, by going to this recent article here on the CHAN website. You can also consult the pdf file attached to this page, below.

To make a donation to Cuba's medical assistance mission in Haiti, make cheques out to “The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund” and mail to: Attention: S. Skup; 56 Riverwood Terrace; Bolton, ON L7E 1S4. You can also donate to Cuba's work in Haiti  through the U.S.-based Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC). Go to their excellent website to learn more: http://www.medicc.org/ns/. 

SOPUDEP School

SOPUDEP is a K-12 school and community advancement project in the Petionville district of Port au Prince. To learn more about it and to donate, go to this page on this website:  http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/SOPUDEP. See a video update of the situation of the school here: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/sopudep-2010-after-earthquake. Donations in Canada are tax deductible.

Build Change in Haiti

Build Change is an award-winning, international 501(c)3 non-profit social enterprise that designs earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries and trains builders, homeowners, engineers, and government officials to build them. Build Change has been operating in Haiti since mid-2010. Visit the  website at: www.buildchange.org, for more information.