As of March 8th, Yele has given 400,000 Gallons of filtered water in over 100 locations across Haiti.

Thanks for all your support! 

Thanks to our supporters and local drives! Three containers of water, food, clothing, shoes, shelters and medical supplies are on their way to Haiti.

These items collected in New York city and New Jersey were sorted, packaged and loaded by our Yele volunteers at 2 West South Orange Avenue in South Orange, NJ. If you would like to volunteer please contact us at volunteer@yele.org by putting on the subject line: Volunteer in South Orange, NJ or by calling 1-973-378-3330 

To see pictures, please click here.

Update on Mar 1, 2010 at 0:51 by yele

 

Yele Haiti is proud to support the inspirational work of Marie Poux and her team at Hope For Haitian Children Foundation (HFHCF).  On Saturday, February 27, local New Orleans volunteers, including members of the US Marine Corps, filled a shipping container with desperately-needed supplies for two orphanages in Leogange, Haiti.  Yele Haiti is sponsoring the entire cost of shipping this first container to Port au Prince.  Two more containers of supplies are in the warehouse for shipment, as soon as sponsors can be found.  If you're interested in supporting this effort, go to: http://www.hopeforhaitianchildrenfoundation.org. 

Ex-Fugee to get Image Award, in part for Haiti effort By IAIN BLAIR

"This award means so much to me because it's not just for me -- it's also for the people of Haiti," says Grammy Award-winning musician and activist Wyclef Jean, who was born and raised in Haiti, where he grew up singing in his father's church before moving to America at age 9.

The ex-Fugees member has always "fought for recognition of my country," and was one of the first people to fly back to his homeland after the devastating earthquake Jan. 12 leveled much of the country, drawing scrutiny for his Yele Haiti org's accounting practices in the process.

"It was like Armageddon mixed with the Apocalypse," recalls Jean, who says he lost 15 family members and friends. "I was helping carry bodies in the street." Ten days later, Jean spearheaded the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief concert in New York City, and soon after joined nearly 80 performers -- including such diverse collaborators as Celine Dion, Lil Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Kanye West and Pink -- to record a new version of the 1985 charity hit "We Are the World," with proceeds this time going to the Haitian relief effort.

But raising money and awareness "isn't enough," stresses Jean, who plans to be a part of the rebuilding. "We need action now to replace the infrastructure, get Haitians employed and renew the agriculture. It's going to take years, and there's no time to lose."

Link: http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&articleid=VR1118015749&cs=1

Left to right: Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President, New York Board of Rabbis, Mr. Joseph Hess, Vice President for Government Relations-Jewish National Fund, Wyclef Jean, Congressman Charles Rangel (NY), Russell F. Robinson, CEO Jewish National Fund and Rabbi Dr. Eric M. Lankin, Chief of Institutional Advancement and Education Jewish National Fund

On Monday, Feb. 22, Wyclef Jean joined rabbis from the New York City area at the Jewish National Fund to discuss the current crisis in Haiti and how the Jewish community could help.  Wyclef shared some of what Yele Haiti is doing to support the relief efforts there and his vision for the needs for Haiti over the long-term. 

Even before the earthquake in January, the JNF had been working with Yéle Haiti and The Timberland Company to address the environmental degradation of Haiti, which has less than two percent tree cover remaining -- and the need is even more pronounced today.  Because the JNF has such a long history of  environmental stewardship (108 years of planting 240 million trees and building 1,000 parks in Israel) they are perfectly suited to advise on the how this much-needed strategy fits in to the long-term recovery plan over the next several years.